Probability Quotes

305 quotes by 254 authors

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability. — Robert Lanza
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the… — Robert Lanza
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham Lincoln
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid… — John Major
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be… — Murray Gell-Mann
What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by… — Hassan Nasrallah
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. — William Osler
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil… — Branch Rickey
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. — Andy Rooney
It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't… — George Saunders
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. — Michael Shermer
We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. — Nate Silver
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. — B.F. Skinner
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. — Tom Stoppard
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all… — Lewis Thomas
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell,… — Lewis Thomas
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. — Edward Thorndike
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty. — Timothy Keller

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