Quotes About Probability

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.

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It seemed impossible, from within love at least, that this could have been anything but fate. It would have taken a steady mind to contemplate without superstition the enormous probability of a meeting that had turned out to alter our lives. Someone at (30,000 feet) must have been pulling strings in the sky.

There is dangerous innocence in the expectation of a future formed on the basis of probability.

There is dangerous innocence in the expectation of a life formed on the basis of probability.

One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim that scientific claims can be shown to be probably true in the light of the evidence. So the vast number of observations that can be invoked to support the claim that materials denser than air fall diWInwards on earth, although it does not permit us to prove the truth of the claim, does warrant the assertion that the claim is probably true.