Quotes by Probability We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. Agnes Meyer Driscoll probabilityabsolute-truthachieve History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. Alan Greenspan probabilitystatistics It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it. Anthony Stafford Beer probabilityunderstandingreal It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. Aristotle improbableprobabilityhappens Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. Arthur Schopenhauer probabilityconfusiondesire The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. B. F. Skinner probabilityconsequence 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. Benjamin Graham being-wrongprobabilityinvesting Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible. Braden Kelley probabilityincreaseimpossible Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it. Bradley Efron probabilitystatisticsscience We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us. Charles Caleb Colton probabilityregretdone Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well. Cornel West probabilitypossibilityconstant 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 probabilityprojectsfound A reasonable probability is the only certainty. E. W. Howe probabilitycertaintymotivational What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better. Elon Musk probabilitytrying and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. Gabriel Garcia Marquez probabilitypermanentreality Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur. Gavin Extence probabilityeventslows An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth. George Eliot probabilitywisemen The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail. George Muller probabilityfailingsight Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities. George Eliot probabilitystrongerfear An electron is real; a probability is not. Hans Christian von Baeyer electronsprobabilityreal123»
