Probability Quotes

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I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability… — Tony Blair
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,… — George Boole
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion… — Paul Nitze
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of… — George Washington
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. — Charles William Eliot
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate… — Carl Jung
Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once… — Colin Powell
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory… — Edgar Allan Poe
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that… — Earl Blumenauer
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability. — John Perry
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2… — James W. Prescott
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and… — Robert A. Burton
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through… — Gautama Buddha
No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation… — Mark Gibbs
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we… — Plato
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree… — Roger Swain
Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a kicker. You go… — Nate Kaeding
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability,… — Ambrose Bierce
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in… — Tobias Smollett
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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