Calculus Quote by Francois Arago

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

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

“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate…

— Mpho Leteng

I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not…

— George Boole

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

— William Godwin

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

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

— Ray Dalio

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

“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

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

— Martin Gardner

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace