Quotes About Likelihoods

When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.

Natural language terms that express likelihoods, like "very likely" and "unlikely," are useful but blunt instruments. The drive to improve on your initial estimates is what motivates you to check your information and learn more. If you hide behind the safety of a general term, there's no reason to improve on it or calibrate

Kynes stared at him, seeing the water-fat flesh. He spoke coldly: "You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

in marketing, advertising, and media our strategies have no inevitability about them. Just probabilities and likelihoods.

In science, the kind of evidence matters; all unlikelihoods are not created equal.