Acceptance Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

— Leslie Stephen

“Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance”

— Richard Dawkins

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an…

— George Boole

“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

“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

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

— John Maynard Keynes

“It is somewhat difficult for the mind, which is accustomed to weighing the odds, to make a decision where probability is not, as it…

— Jake Yaniak

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

— Aristotle

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to…

— Richard Dawkins