Probability Quotes

305 quotes by 254 authors

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to… — Antoine Lavoisier
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I… — Arthur Eddington
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
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." — Arthur Eddington
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which… — Ronald Fisher
Moral certainty is never more than probability. — Giovanni Battista Beccaria
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
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period… — Chris Hughes
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of… — Lin Yutang
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution.… — Vinod Khosla
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions… — Vinod Khosla
We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we havenâ€™t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event… — Dick Cheney
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling… — Terence Tao
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us. — Charles Caleb Colton
And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want. — Michael Neill
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability. — Robertson Davies
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action. — Francis Crick
He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention… — Samuel Johnson
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. — Lewis Mumford

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