Quotes by Probability The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability. Hans Christian von Baeyer probabilityinformationproblem The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god. J. L. Mackie probabilityexistencebalance 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. J. D. Salinger probabilityglassesdeath The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. Jack Canfield probabilitylawtrying A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps. James Thurber probabilitypounds The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. Jeanette Winterson probabilityfalling-in-loveworld Hope does not always require probability. John Perry Barlow probabilitydoe Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. Marshall Ganz probabilitybelief The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance. Martin Zweig probabilityideas The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. Mehmet Murat Ildan probabilitygeniusstupid Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties Murray Gell-Mann probabilitycertaintysometimes Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off. Nassim Nicholas Taleb probabilityexpectationspay We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. Nate Silver probabilitymarketingcomfortable Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards Napoleon Bonaparte probabilitymedicinehundred Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too. Peter Singer probabilityguides Arguments derived from probabilities are idle. Plato idleprobabilityargument I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high. Pythagoras probabilitydyingseems Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Rene Descartes probable-causeprobabilityphilosophical 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. Richard Arnold Epstein wagersprobabilityresources I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low. Richard Dawkins probabilitylowsthinking«123»
