Probability Quotes

Probability Quote of the day

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

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.

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.

Life is a school of probability.

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.

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.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

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

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka. The probability that they will hit the target is clearly higher.

Hope does not always require probability.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

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

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

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.