Probability Quotes

305 quotes by 241 authors

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new… — Hannah Arendt
Life is a school of probability. — Walter Bagehot
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. — Hans Bender
Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the… — Nolan Bushnell
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say… — Lord Byron
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe… — Alexander Hamilton
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability… — Jim Al-Khalili
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to… — Samuel Johnson
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
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear… — Dick Cheney
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. — Vic Braden
The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very… — John J. Pershing
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you… — Grenville Kleiser
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of… — Samuel Johnson
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
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;… — Jacques Monod
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
A reasonable probability is the only certainty. — E. W. Howe
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the… — H. L. Mencken
All knowledge degenerates into probability. — David Hume

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