Quotes About Probability

This is Dirac's quantum mechanics: a recipe for calculating the spectra of the variables, and a recipe for calculating the probability that one or another value in the spectrum appears during an interaction.

Is?, s?cak nesnelerden so?uk nesnelere mutlak bir yasan?n zorlamas?yla geçmez: Yaln?zca bu yöndeki geçi?i daha yüksek bir olas?l?kla olur. Bunun nedeni iste ?udur: S?cak nesneye ait daha h?zl? bir atomun daha so?uk bir atoma çarpmas? ve enerjisinin biraz?n? b?rakmas? ve bunun tersinin olmamas?, istatistiksel olarak daha yüksek bir olas?l?kt?r.

Dolay?s?yla olas?l?k, cisimlerin de?i?imiyle ilgili de?ildir. Ba?ka cisimlerle etkile?tiklerinde, cisimlerin özellik alt s?n?flar?n?n de?erlerinin de?i?imiyle ilgilidir.

information is the measure of the number of possible alternatives for something. For example, if I throw a die, it can land on one of six faces.

The solidity of the classical vision of the world is nothing other than our own myopia. The certainties of classical physics are just probabilities. The well-defined and solid picture of the world given by the old physics is an illusion.

The theory also gives information on which value of the spectrum will manifest itself in the next interaction, but only in the form of probabilities. We do not know with certainty where the electron will appear, but we can compute the probability that it will appear here or there.

An event that was rare in that twenty-five-year span may not be all that rare when placed in a longer historical context. After all, a researcher stands only a one-in-four chance of observing a "hundred-year flood" in twenty-five years

Social scientists emphasize that people use the "availability heuristic," which means that we assess risks by asking whether a bad (or good) event is cognitively "available." It

It has never happened!" cannot be construed to mean, "It can never happen!"—as

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.

People always think it can't happen to them, instead of thinking it's going to happen to somebody, why not me." She

bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I've got a couple who hit low

you have enough monkeys randomly striking keyboard keys (they have recently traded in their typewriters for PCs), one of them will eventually type Hamlet

I feel like there was maybe a 1 percent chance that you get twin brothers on the same team.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because 'typical' is just another way of saying 'most probable.'

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.