Probability Quotes

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

Robert Nozick

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I like the probability of the impossible.

Nicolas Roeg

ImpossibleProbabilityLike

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

Edward Thorndike

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

Max Frisch

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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

SmallThinkSurpriseYouProbability

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

Edward Gibbon

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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

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Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Henry Spencer

FailureExperiencePastProbability

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

Zbigniew Brzezinski

PushProbabilityWouldRussians

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

SeaMeGoProbabilityUpHigher

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

David R. Ellis

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Life is a school of probability.

Walter Bagehot

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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

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There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

Buzz Aldrin

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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

Pardis Sabeti

LoveStatisticsKindProbability

When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.

Andrew Cherng

LifeSucceedYouWayProbability

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

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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

Alan Greenspan

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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

Damon Lindelof

TimeProbabilityTakeFoundHigher

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

FatProblemImportantProbability

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

Joseph Butler

LifeProbabilityUsGuideVery

I'm always trying to calculate the mathematical probability of certain outcomes.

Paul Allen

TryingAlwaysProbabilityOutcomes

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

B. F. Skinner

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Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

Robert Lanza

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