Probability Quotes

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

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.

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.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

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

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

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

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

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

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

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.

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

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

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.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

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

Hope does not always require probability.

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

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

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

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