Quotes About Probability

God Almighty does not throw dice.

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

Our chances are always pretty good

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

Hope does not always require probability.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Don't worry. It's scientifically unlikely that the universe will explode into a million particles at any given moment.

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.