Appearance Quote by David Hume

“As the skeptics’ main teaching was that nothing could be accepted with certainty, conclusions of various degrees of probability could be formed, and these…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“...the absence of certainty does not mean that one interpretation is as valid as any other. Probabilities and plausibilities matter; and when the evidence…

— Mary Lefkowitz

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are…

— Plato

“probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance…

— Vann Chow

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we…

— Carlo Rovelli

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

— Rupert Sheldrake

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken…

— Joseph Glanvill

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

— Ian Hacking