Certainty Quote by Hugh Howey

By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who…

— Robert A. Heinlein

We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come…

— Martha Gellhorn

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

— Steven Pinker

“The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based…

— Benjamin Graham

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“The associative machinery seeks causes. The difficulty we have with statistical regularities is that they call for a different approach. Instead of focusing on…

— Daniel Kahneman

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

— Paul Kantner

The probable is what usually happens.

— Aristotle

Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to…

— Nicholson Baker

“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined…

— Richard Dawkins

“Nobody evers seems to realize that a statistic is just a coincidence that has had a lot of experience.”

— S.L. Varnado