Probability Quotes

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The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. — Jack Canfield
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities… — Jeffrey Kluger
What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to… — Daniel Kahneman
People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted. — Daniel Kahneman
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he… — Walter J. Phillips
Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from… — Max Planck
I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high. — Pythagoras
A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere… — Frederick Lenz
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that… — Karl Popper
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need. — Dennis Lindley
Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it. — Dennis Lindley
It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility. — Dennis Lindley
I donâ€™t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed. — Vinod Khosla
To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information… — Ari Kiev
The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking. — Kesha
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. — Max Frisch
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. — Edward Gibbon
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do… — Peter Drucker
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. — David R. Ellis
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. — Thomas Huxley

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