Probability is the very guide of life.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.
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.
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.
Fate laughs at probabilities.
Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.
But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life.. make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be.
I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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.
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
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