Likelihood Quotes - Page 3

• I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.

  David Rockefeller

  Thinking, World Government, People

  Interview with Benjamin Fulford, November 13, 2007.

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• This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.

  John Maynard Smith

  Wind Blowing, Boeing, Steps

  "The Problems of Biology". Book by John Maynard Smith, p. 49, 1986.

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• If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization of diplomatic relations is very slim.

  Koichi Haraguchi

  Issues, Nuclear, Diplomatic Relations

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

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Real, Understanding, Probability

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 41), 1968.

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• The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

  Peter Tait

  Next, Physics, Mathematical

  "Note on a Quaternion Transformation", Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 117, 1866.

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• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  Indra Nooyi

  Design, Innovation, Female

  "Sports: By Women and For Women" by Indra Nooyi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.

  Marina Warner

  Media, Black, Phases

  Marina Warner (2013). “Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism”, p.248, OUP Oxford

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• Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Believe, Judging

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• When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.

  Taner Edis

  Religion, Demand, Causality

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• The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Equality, Differences

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.208, Penguin

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• In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Opportunity

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• The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch.

  John C. Dvorak

  Technology, Data, Succeed

  "The Looming Cable Modem Fiasco". PC Magazine, September 12, 1995.

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• To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, People, Temptation

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Odds, Play

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Different, Atoms, Hierarchy

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

  Rhodri Morgan

  Stitches, Next, Pope

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• Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Believe, Oil, Persian

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• The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out there, being able to commit these crimes. I want them to go to prison. But if you understand this crime and you understand what happens in the reporting of this crime and the support that a victim does or does not get, you realize that our legislation increases the likelihood that a young woman will go to the police in a timely manner and that the police will investigate and that they will be able to administer real justice in the criminal system.

  Claire McCaskill

  Real, School, Justice

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Simple, Ordinary Days

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but you also know there's a very strong likelihood that the future of that recording, whether you made it or whether you're listening to a Led Zeppelin record, is going to continue probably far beyond where you are.

  Will Oldham

  Strong, Past, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some people have set up sort of "gotcha" algorithms that apparently crawl through psychology articles and look for fraudulent p-values [a measure of the likelihood that experimental results weren't a fluke]. But they're including rounding errors that don't change the significance levels of the results, and they're doing it anonymously.

  Susan Fiske

  Errors, People, Psychology

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.

  Elliott Sober

  Statistics, Ancestry, Common

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [Edward Snoden] has said many times that he's willing to come back and face trial if he can be guaranteed a fair trial, but the likelihood of that is so slim.

  Zachary Quinto

  Faces, Trials, Slim

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

  Gene Weingarten

  Real, Knowing, Identity

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I totally think that the likelihood upon this whole galaxy and universe, we are the only ones... I don't think we are.

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph

  Thinking, Galaxy, Whole

  "Da’Vine Joy Randolph & Luka Jones Talk TBS’ ‘People Of Earth’ + Watch The First Episode!". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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