Blunders Quote by Martin Gardner

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

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

“certain professionals, while believing they are experts, are in fact not. Based on their empirical record, they do not know more about their subject…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Ray Dalio

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

— Stephen Hawking

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 advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with…

— Norbert Wiener

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh