Probability Quotes
Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.
He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life.
The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand
The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case that show that the program works correctly.
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!
