Probability Quotes

305 quotes by 254 authors

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made… — James Hansen
A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur… — Kenneth W. Ford
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,… — Steven Pinker
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only… — John Maynard Keynes
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it. — Henry Maudslay
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing… — Walter Sutton
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in… — Isaac Asimov
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness… — Alexander Hamilton
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most… — Alexander Hamilton
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without… — Jerome K. Jerome
Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn… — George Washington
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat,… — James Prescott Joule
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with… — George C. Marshall
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%. — Enrico Fermi
I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low, — Richard Dawkins

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