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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… — David Copperfield
• The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. — Vic Braden
• We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the… — Albert Claude
• In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter… — Martin Rees
• The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with… — Louis Agassiz
• As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. — Charles Darwin
• The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation… — Unknown Author
• A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
• Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to… — John Maynard Keynes
• Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change… — George Boole
• All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. — Charles William Eliot

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