Probability Quotes - page 2

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking. (Alan Greenspan)
There is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete and everybody is capable of everything. View quote
Joseph Heller
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters. View quote
Maria Edgeworth
Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors. View quote
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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. View quote
Timothy Geithner
Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. View quote
John Gay
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life is a school of probability. View quote
Walter Bagehot
... so vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream. View quote
William Faulkner
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it. (Charles Babbage)
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic. View quote
David Stove
The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful occupation. Any protest against such efforts, in the name of freefom from restrictive conditions, would be fruitless if science did not naïvely identify the abstractions called rules and laws with the actually efficacious forces, and confuse the probability that B will follow A with the actual effort make B follow A. View quote
Max Horkheimer
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult. View quote
Thomas Reid
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide. View quote
Albert Ellis
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. View quote
Chris Hughes
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. View quote
Hans Bender
But to us, probability is the very guide of life. View quote
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)
When two identical He atoms collide... the interference is destructive. Particles that behave like He atoms are called fermions, short for "particles obeying Fermi–Dirac statistics." ...while bosons imitate one another... the "identity force" between fermions acts like a repulsion, and the probability of finding a fermion at some point in space is reduced if some of its identical siblings are nearby. ...It is the repulsive identity forces between electrons that support white dwarf stars... against their own gravity. View quote
Frank Wilczek
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. View quote
Max Frisch
He had the high degree of courage so common in the human race, a race capable of conceiving death, yet able to face its probability daily, on the highway, on the obstetrics table, on the battlefield, in the air, in the subway-and to face lightheartedly the certainty of death in the end. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
He posed me a question which I must answer correctly-else he will not co-operate.” "Huh? What was the question? "I'll ask you. Martha, what is the meaning of life?” "What! Why, what a stupid question!” "He did not ask it stupidly.” "It's a psychopathic question, unlimited, unanswerable, and, in all probability, sense free. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein