Able Quote by Plato

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success…

— Jack Vance

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

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are…

— Plato

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.

— Dennis Lindley

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others

— Bertrand Russell

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the…

— Kobo Abe

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

— Dennis Lindley

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim…

— Elliott Sober

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

— Bertrand Russell