Probability Quotes

305 quotes by 254 authors

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to… — Thomas Reid
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to… — Alex Faickney Osborn
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. — Andrew Lo
Almost all life depends on probabilities. — Voltaire
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would… — Nellie Bly
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts… — Ivan Turgenev
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to… — Alice Walker
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it… — James Anthony Froude
How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual… — Sri Chinmoy
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isnâ€™t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo, — Michio Kaku
Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability! — Vera Nazarian
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. — Aristotle
We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective… — Seth Klarman
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every… — Bertrand Russell
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The probability of having some problem with the children is greater when the mother is over the age of 35 but I've never heard anyone… — Jamie Whyte
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled. — Anthony de Jasay
The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children… — John F. Kennedy
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but… — Steven Chu

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