Probability Quotes

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln

Struggle, May, Support

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney

Wrong, Chance, Getting

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Peter Drucker

Nothing, Born, Certainty

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike

Aim, Psychology, Measure

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

Again, Act, Affect

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

Within, Scientific, Limits

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard

Truth, Facts, Principles

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler

Art, Science, Medicine

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Hannah Arendt

Against, Everyday, Happens

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon

True, General, Laws

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
Lewis Thomas

Small, Keep, Here

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
Nate Silver

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
Lewis Thomas

Life, Single, High

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.
George Saunders

Reality, Everything, Down

Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.
Robert Lanza

Next, Turn, Longer

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
John Major

Stupid, Thought, Half

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
Hans Bender

Yourself, Free, Open

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
Joseph Butler

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.
Murray Gell-Mann

Universe, Quantum, Mechanics

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Max Frisch

Used, Fate, Providence

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
Hassan Nasrallah

Strength, War, Government

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.
Rudolf Arnheim

Hand, Concerned, Kinds

I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store.
Cory Monteith

Life, Work, Different

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
Jurgen Habermas

Down, Risk, Nor

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
Antoine Lavoisier

Daily, Thought, Two

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.
Timothy Geithner

Today, May, Less

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.
Chris Hughes

Time, Care, Individual

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

Push, Russians, Increased

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly

Life, Through, Living

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