quotes about Probability
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It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 41), 1968.
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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
-- Aristotle -
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
-- Damon Lindelof -
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Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
-- David R. EllisSource : Philip Morrison (1997). “Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True”, p.180, Springer Science & Business Media
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When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.
-- Enrico Fermi -
Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.
-- Gavin ExtenceSource : Gavin Extence (2013). “The Universe versus Alex Woods”, p.67, Hachette UK
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An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
-- George Eliot -
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The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.
-- George Muller -
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
-- Hans Bender -
An electron is real; a probability is not.
-- Hans Christian von BaeyerSource : "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.
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The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.
-- Hans Christian von BaeyerSource : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.70, Harvard University Press
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Hope does not always require probability.
-- John Perry Barlow -
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
-- Marshall GanzSource : Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage
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The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.
-- Martin ZweigSource : "Martin Zweig Growth Investing Screen: How does it work?", www.businessinsider.com. May 7, 2011.
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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
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Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
-- Nate SilverSource : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.20, Penguin
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Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.
-- Richard Arnold EpsteinSource : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Three, Fundamental Principles Of A Theory Of Gambling, 1977.
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I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,
-- Richard Dawkins -
Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
-- Robert LanzaSource : Robert Lanza, Bob Berman (2013). “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe”, p.123, BenBella Books, Inc.
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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
-- Thomas Huxley -
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.
-- Braden Kelley -
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll -
The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.
-- J. L. Mackie