Probability Quotes

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The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. — Francois Arago
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to… — Antoine Lavoisier
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of… — Edward Gibbon
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball… — Janet Evanovich
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process… — Stephen Jay Gould
I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death… — N. T. Wright
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. — Ambrose Bierce
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities. — George Eliot
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar. — Robert Breault
Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents… — Kary Mullis
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. — James Anthony Froude
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be… — Isaac Watts
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the… — Oscar Wilde
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is… — Rick Yancey
If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously… — J D Salinger
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking. — Damon Lindelof

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