Quotes About Probability

sus probabilidades de morir joven eran muy superiores a sus probabilidades de enamorarse, pero curiosamente estaba a gusto con esa situación.

There is a danger of expecting the results of the future to be predicted from the past.

in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.

But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices.

Como ve,la incertidumbre corresponde al jugador, no a las reglas... De las infinitas trayectorias posibles de una bala, sólo una ocurre en la realidad.

El azar era una explicación que sólo tranquilizaba a los idiotas.

The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.

Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Nothing is absolutely 100 percent guaranteed.

Nobody gets any guarantees.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

There are few statistical facts more interesting than regression to the mean for two reasons. First, people encounter it almost every day of their lives. Second, almost nobody understands it.

Wishes are held to be ominous; according to which belief the order of the world is so arranged that if you have an impious objection to a squint, your offspring is more likely to be born with one; also, that if you happen to desire a squint, you would not get it. This desponding view of probability the hopeful entirely reject, taking their wishes as good and sufficient security for all kinds of fulfilment.

There's only one chance in two billion that the elevator will get stuck," he would have focused on that one possibility. Remember, the brain is hardwired to search for danger and the negative in order to survive.

They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

Investing is a probabilistic business. Every once in a while, it's sort of like you're throwing six-sided dice, and anything except a one or a two, you're doing well. Statistically speaking, you throw the dice enough times, you're going to throw a one or a two five times in a row, and you're going to look pretty foolish, right?

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.