Change Quote by Richard P. Feynman

“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.”

— Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

— Dennis Lindley

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 its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty.…

— Richard P. Feynman

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

— Nate Silver

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

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

Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language…

— Robert A. Burton

“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

“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