Alternatives Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as…

— Ludwig Buchner

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

“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it…

— René Guénon

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

— Voltaire

“Impossible odds require improbable people”

— J.A. Young

“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

“If you think your odds of solving your problem are bad, don’t rule out the possibility that what is really happening is that you…

— Scott Adams

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

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

— Aristotle

“I know that the chances for success are slim. [...] But odds are mathematical formulas calculated to give people a reason not to try.”

— Jude Watson

“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