Quotes About Probability

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.

Twenty-two's my lucky number.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late.

Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

May be odds be always in your favor

The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

There's luck in odd numbers.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history