Probability Quotes

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae 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 risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

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.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

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.

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.

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!

The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

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

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

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.

An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.

If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a low probability given the initial state of the universe.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

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.

The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen.