Probabilities Quotes
62 quotes by 50 authors
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
— David Copperfield
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The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
— Vic Braden
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We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical…
— Albert Claude
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In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers…
— Martin Rees
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The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of…
— Louis Agassiz
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
— Charles Darwin
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The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are…
— Chandra Wickramasinghe
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A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,…
— George Boole
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
— Charles William Eliot
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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and…
— Robert A. Burton
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An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg…
— John Fowles
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The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.
— George Muller
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central…
— Alan Greenspan
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If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we…
— Atul Gawande
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