Probability Quotes

305 quotes by 254 authors

An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme BayÂ â€” Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern legÂ… — John Fowles
The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail. — George Muller
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central… — Alan Greenspan
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley
The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. — Elon Musk
Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' — Aristotle
But to us, probability is the very guide of life. — Joseph Butler
A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some… — Morris H. DeGroot
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to… — William James
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and… — John Maynard Keynes
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is… — Norbert Wiener
The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we… — Atul Gawande
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. — Marshall Ganz
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional… — Timothy Geithner
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if… — Margaret Thatcher
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall… — Simon Bolivar

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