Probability Quotes

305 quotes by 254 authors

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. — Sidney Hook
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and… — Peter Thiel
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann
Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled… — L. Ron Hubbard
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout… — Jacque Fresco
The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and societyâ€™s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently… — Sherwin B. Nuland
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one… — Christian de Duve
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little… — Robert Kanigel
In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of… — Antony Jay
Probability is the very guide of life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and… — Richard P. Feynman
"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have… — Agatha Christie
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. — Martin Gardner
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt… — Plato
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Eddington
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor… — Francois Fenelon
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that… — George Eliot

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