Art Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Perhaps the most striking illustration of Bayes’s theorem comes from a riddle that a mathematics teacher that I knew would pose to his students…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.

— Don Berry

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realize”

— Sylvia Clare

“Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realise”

— Sylvia Clare

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 is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and…

— Richard P. Feynman

Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a…

— Tony Buzan

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.

— Jim Berger

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I…

— Anne Carson

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

— Ray Dalio