Able Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“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

“science cannot even make probability judgements on”

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

— Jack Horner

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

— Thomas Huxley

Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no…

— Fran Lebowitz

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

— Francois Arago

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

— Ian Hacking

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

— Stephen Schneider

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

— Norbert Wiener