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Probabilities Quotes

Probabilities Definition  
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
William Reddington Hewlett

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Branch Rickey

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Arthur Eddington

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Anthony Froude

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.
George Boole

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
Michael Shermer

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
Murray Gell-Mann






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