Definition of Probability
Probability
The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.
That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth.
Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5.
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Probability Quotations
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
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
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
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
Thomas Huxley
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
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
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Max Frisch
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
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
Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot
Probability Translations
probability in German is Wahrscheinlichkeit, wahrscheinlich
probability in Italian is verosimiglianza
probability in Spanish is probabilidad, apariencia
probability in Swedish is sannolikhet
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