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A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
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Earl Blumenauer But to us, probability is the very guide of life. Joseph Butler 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 Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. David R. Ellis Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. Hans Bender From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. Tom Stoppard I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. Max Frisch If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. Vannevar Bush 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 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 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 In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true. Simon Greenleaf Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability. Claude Shannon 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 Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that. Steven Chu Life is a school of probability. Walter Bagehot Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. William Osler One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. John Hull 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 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 |
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