Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky Download Open image ““You can’t talk to thermodynamics and you can’t pray to probability theory. You”” — Eliezer Yudkowsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But by God sometimes you have to be able to think about the unthinkable!” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“the only thing that can be predicted is the probability of different events.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.” — Ched Myers Copy Share Image
“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“the idea that one is ever too busy to pray is delusion of the most dangerous variety.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“When we face impossible odds, let us not look at the size of our problem; let us look at the size of our God.” — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
“But I really am Ravenclaw, you know, not Slytherin. I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I am not sure how to explain it, except that - truth matters to us.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“There’s a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called “Is That Your True Rejection?”, and it works like this: Before you stake… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Knowing that Draco's hopeful face had probably been drilled into him by months of practice did not make it any less effective, Harry observed.… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
