Quotes About Probability

Arithmetic and number theory study patterns of number and counting. Geometry studies patterns of shape. Calculus allows us to handle patterns of motion. Logic studies patterns of reasoning. Probability theory deals with patterns of chance. Topology studies patterns of closeness ans position.

Isn't human mind a funny thing? A bullet is a bullet, dead is dead. The reduction in probability of your demise is precisely the same in both cases. Why isn't your price the same?

Flipping the gains to losses flips the types of behavior. When losses are likely, reckless gambles become acceptable (lower left cell).

He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and he knew, too, that life could offer a quality even worse - the probability that nothing would happen at all.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Your chances of winnin' the lottery get a lot better if you buy a ticket.

It's like Russian Roulette, one in six'll kill you.

And hopefully nothing will happen." But of course, as she well knew, something always does happen. It's just a question of what and when.

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

Wavefunction collapse is anything other than "random". If you could really see what was going on, you would see that nothing ever happens randomly, any more than a dice throw produces a genuinely randomly outcome (if you could see what was going on, all the forces in play, you would know exactly what the outcome would be). Sensory ignorance is not ontological uncertainty. Reality knows exactly what it is doing even if you don't!

Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance

Murphy's Law states that, "If anything will go wrong, it will".Positive side of this law is, "If anything good can happen, it definitely will happen

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

medical students at Harvard made significant errors5 when calculating the probability that a patient had cancer

There's a less than one percent chance of a vasectomy failing, but it does happen. And you know there were complications . . ." "Please don't talk about the complications.

We live in a universe driven by chance," his father had said once, "but the bullshit artists all want causality.

Life´s a gamble, honey. The only guarantee is that nobody gets out alive.

My opinion is that the chances of getting to Paulet Is. now are about 1 in 10. . . .

the rags of chance.

There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate.

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one-in-over-100-million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there's a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science.