Believe Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Printing mistakes adds value because of the probability calculus, which makes their intrusion into something problematic and almost impossible, even when everything's conceived, precisely,…

— Romain Gary

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

— Martin Gardner

“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate…

— Mpho Leteng

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The Way of Bayes is also an imprecise art, at least the way I'm holding forth upon it. These blog posts are still fumbling…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm always trying to calculate the mathematical probability of certain outcomes.

— Paul Allen

“There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to…

— Alan Greenspan

Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

— Gregory Chaitin

“People who can accurately sort probabilities from possibilities are generally strong at “practical thinking”;”

— Ray Dalio

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit…

— David Hume