Quotes About Probability

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Between the streams of probability & possibility, lies the timeless, spaceless realm where time gets created!

Your "look-alike" may be the result of one of the various possible futures happening simultaneously!

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

If you can't dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

It has been suggested that an army of monkeys might be trained to pound typewriters at random in the hope that ultimately great works of literature would be produced. Using a coin for the same purpose may save feeding and training expenses and free the monkeys for other monkey business.

It is a common fallacy to believe that the law of large numbers acts as a force endowed with memory seeking to return to the original state, and many wrong conclusions have been drawn from this assumption.

Rights do not pertain to results, but only to chances. They

In other words, atoms and elementary particles and matter itself all are probabilities and possibilities, to which we ourselves give form.

Does quantum physics really say, he asked, that the moon doesn't exist when no one is looking at it? He found the idea that matter was described by probabilities especially upsetting. "God does not play dice with the universe!" he declared. To which Bohr supposedly replied, "Albert, don't tell God what to do.

The point here is that runs of 4 or more heads or tails are perceived as a nonrandom pattern, when in fact they are in fact the rule in random sequences, not the exception. Stock market participants frequently make this mistake, and an entirely bogus field of finance known as "technical analysis" is devoted to finding patterns in random financial data.

Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.

Probabilities are relative to background information.

You're more likely to die from a falling coconut than from a shark attack, and more likely to die on your birthday than any other day of the year. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes and, over a lifetime, spends twenty-five years sleeping. About 11 percent of the population are left-handed. The most typical human face on Earth is that of a 28-year-old Chinese man.

Trying to rely on the sheer good luck of avoiding bad outcomes indefinitely would simply guarantee that we would eventually fail without the means of recovering.

For example, you cannot predict what numbers will come up on a fair (i.e. unbiased) roulette wheel. But if you understand what it is in the wheel's design and operation that makes it fair, then you can explain why predicting the numbers is impossible.

El valor de una casualidad es igual a su tasa de improbabilidad.

It turns out that you only need 23 people for it to be more likely to find a shared birthday than not.

With 80 people, the size of this classroom, the probability that there will be no shared birthdays is so tiny as to be virtually impossible.