Probability Quotes
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We may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.
— Margaret C. Sullivan
The logic of limitless probability
— Rob Kircher
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
— E.W. Howe
Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.
— Gavin Extence
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn't wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
— Barbara Tuchman
The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again
— B.F. Skinner
What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?
— Yoon Ha Lee
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
— Marshall Ganz
Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
— Alasdair Gray
There is wisdom in madness, and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everybody is capable of everything.
— Joseph Heller
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
— George Eliot
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
— John Steinbeck
worked, the bomb, in all probability, would shorten
— Harry Truman
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
All statistics have outliers.
— Nenia Campbell
I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
— Elon Musk
An electron is real; a probability is not.
— Hans Christian Von Baeyer
The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
— Andy Rooney
Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.
— Claude Shannon
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.
— Donald Miller
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
— Cornel West
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
— Arthur Eddington
It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.
— Vinod Khosla
Life is a school of probability.
— Walter Bagehot
No matter how talented you are, if you don't persist the probability of achieving your goals is extremely small".
— Camilla Dorand
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Science cannot even make probability judgements on
— Richard Dawkins
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
— Baruch Spinoza
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
— Samuel Johnson
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.
— Martin Gardner
As the sun sets, something in me rises! Do you think it could be my soul? I feel it's a big probability!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I don't mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
— Vinod Khosla
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
— Thomas Huxley
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
— Robertson Davies
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
— Dennis Lindley
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
— Alan Greenspan
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
— David R. Ellis
Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.
— Michael Lewis
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
— Bradley Efron
The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
— Brian Tracy
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.
— Philip Morrison
Moral certainty is never more than probability.
— Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. - David L. Watson
— James Gleick
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
— Tom Stoppard
Embrace the probability of your imminent death ... and know there is nothing i can do to save you.
— Suzanne Collins
Well, 'vacuum with a sparse dusting of probability waves' is an accurate description of just about everything in the universe,
— Neal Stephenson
Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.
— J. L. Mackie
There are times in life when logic and reason and probability must be recognized, but then ignored.
— Augusten Burroughs
I don't simply create probabilities, I guide them.
— Lionel Suggs
She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.
— Frank Herbert
Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
you can pass a football,you can gas,but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed
— Wendy Wunder
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
— C.S. Lewis
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
— Hans Jonas
The odds of finding love are one in 285,000, but the probability of getting married is 80 percent. There seems to be a discrepancy here. Your
— Rebekah Crane
Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life.
— Doug Stanhope
The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.
— Steven Pinker
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
— Anthony Stafford Beer
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.
— Robert Breault
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.
— Ruth Dugdall
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
— Mike Godwin
What are you really studying?"He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of love at first sight. — Jennifer E. Smith
People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.
— The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight
Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall.
— Terry Pratchett
If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
— David Eagleman
