Quotes About Probability

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

The odds of getting a diet soda when you order one at the drive-through are roughly better than chance.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' That's Spock in Star Trek VI, but he's paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Everything in the world was definitely based only in luck. Some people won Lotto, some people walked down the street and air conditioners fell on their heads, and the rest of the world was somewhere in between. Unfortunately, Joey felt closer to the air conditioner guy than the Lotto guy.

Not only in probability theory, but in all mathematics, it is the careless use of infinite sets, and of infinite and infinitesimal quantities, that generates most paradoxes.

the most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

De cada mil personas que pasen por esa puerta -decía- acaso nos conmueva solamente una. Del mismo modo, quizá solo una entre las mil tenga a bien impresionarse con nosotros. La cuenta es sencilla: sin contar las percepciones engañosas y desilusiones posteriores, la posibilidad de un amor correspondido es de una en un millón.

Luck can be bad as well as good,

For instance, Publius affirms that the electoral college "affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications." In fact, he speaks of "a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue," or "at least respectable" (No.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

God does not play dice.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.