Carrier Quote by Edwin Thompson Jaynes

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

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an…

— George Boole

“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the reason we…

— George Boole

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

— John Polkinghorne

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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 theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“To leave the atom constituted as it was but to interfere with the probability of its undetermined behaviour, does not seem quite so drastic…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

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

— Aristotle

“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

— Gregory Chaitin

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

— Ian Hacking