Probability Quotes

I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

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

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true,
we ought to follow what is most probable.

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Hope does not always require probability.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.

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

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

Take a dose of medicine once,
and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

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

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

An electron is real; a probability is not.

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.

The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

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

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.