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Probability Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- 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,…
- REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
- Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to…
More Probability Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Life is a school of probability. — Walter Bagehot
- Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. — Hans Bender
- Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure,… — Nolan Bushnell
- I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though… — Lord Byron
- Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton
- If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the… — Jim Al-Khalili
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson