Probabilities Quotes

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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann
Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled… — L. Ron Hubbard
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt… — Plato
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Eddington
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that… — George Eliot
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. — Jack Dreyfus
You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of… — Marianne Williamson
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to… — Alex Faickney Osborn
Almost all life depends on probabilities. — Voltaire
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it… — James Anthony Froude
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. — Francois Arago
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to… — Antoine Lavoisier
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process… — Stephen Jay Gould
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. — Ambrose Bierce
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities. — George Eliot
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. — James Anthony Froude
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the… — Oscar Wilde
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor… — Thomas Jefferson
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder… — Morris Kline
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds… — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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