Elements Quote by Charles Scott Sherrington

“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to…

— Francis Collins

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

— Aristotle

“In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me,…

— Annie Dillard

Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

— Wayne Dyer

We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.

— Emmet Fox

The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what…

— Atul Gawande

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than…

— Nikola Tesla

“The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all…

— Elliott Sober

“That an organism will see the light, hear the night, or touch the wind is subject to probability. And that its perfection is in…

— Dew Platt

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

— Arthur Conan Doyle