Probability Quotes - Page 2

The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.

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

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

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

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

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

One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.

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

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

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

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

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

Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

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.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.