Quotes About Probability

The fact that one thing precedes another doesn't mean one thing causes another." "Oh," she said. "I know all that. But do I want to risk getting killed for some fucking formal logic rule?" "No," I said. "You don't.

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Cadeon, a chance can't be reduced from zero." "Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.

My flight was announced by Donald Duck noises from a loudspeaker; I arose and shuffled off towards the statistical improbability of dying in an airplane crash. Personally, the thought of such a death appalls me little – what civilized man would not rather die like Icarus than be mangled to death on a Motorway by a Ford Popular?

Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle.

A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.

Mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.

since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.

It turned out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will, but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second. Vaunted 'human intuition' is in reality 'pattern recognition'.3

Similar probabilistic models have become central to economics, sociology, psychology, political science and the other social and natural sciences.

Na verdade, os sentimentos são mecanismos bioquímicos que todos os mamíferos e aves usam para calcular rapidamente a probabilidade de sobrevivência e reprodução. Os sentimentos não têm por base a intuição, a inspiração ou a liberdade – baseiam-se em cálculos.

puesto que solo hay un mundo real, mientras que el número de mundos virtuales potenciales es infinito, la probabilidad de que habitemos el único mundo real es casi nula. Ninguno

Beware of arguments based on probability. When he was a young man, Einstein worked as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office. What are the odds that a clerk in the same office today will be the next Einstein? It's an absurd question to pose that way (like asking the odds that a deaf person will become the next Beethoven).

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way [i.e., randomly] is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.

Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan. Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much better.

I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen.

Generally doesn't sound very improbable. Doesn't sound very zenzizenzizenzic to one against. Sounds more like even money to me.