Accounts Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

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 calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

— Francois Arago

I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not…

— George Boole

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate…

— Mpho Leteng

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

— Murray Gell-Mann

“It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and…

— Richard P. Feynman

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

— Anthony Stafford Beer

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

— Martin Gardner

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