Circumstances Quote by Elliott Sober

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

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.”

— Samir Okasha

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

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 must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Ian Hacking

“Of two or more competing theories, the simpler theory is most likely correct.”

— Mike Dooley

“[Modern scientific] theories can necessarily never be more than hypothetical, since their starting-point is wholly empirical, for facts in themselves are always susceptible of…

— René Guénon

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

— Aristotle

“Unlike classical certainty, quantum systems describe likelihoods, not fixed outcomes.”

— Ludmila Morozova-Buss

“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth.…

— Erwin Schrödinger