Levels Quote by Murray Gell-Mann

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

— Ernest Rutherford

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

— Ernest Rutherford

Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.

— Richard Dawkins

I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.

— James Holzhauer

Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.

— Gary Zukav

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

— Murray Gell-Mann

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we…

— Richard P. Feynman

“In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me,…

— Annie Dillard

“When everybody thinks the same thing—such as what a sure bet the Nifty 50 is—it is almost certainly reflected in the price, and betting…

— Ray Dalio

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in…

— Fritjof Capra

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

— Stephen Schneider

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

— Rick Warren