Quotes About Probability

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

When a prism was activated, a quantum measurement was performed inside the device, with two possible outcomes of equal probability:

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

We can't run this experiment a thousand times to see the range of different outcomes. We can only run it once. The human mind has trouble with situations like that. We see patterns where they don't exist, we find meaning in randomness.

Well, it seems that this process you call consciousness is somewhat more complex than you perhaps gave it credit for at first," Orolo said. "One must be able to take in givens from sparse dustings of probability waves in a vacuum—" "I.e., see stuff." "Yes, and perform the trick of integrating those givens into seemingly persistent objects that can be held in consciousness.

Well, 'vacuum with a sparse dusting of probability waves' is an accurate description of just about everything in the universe

As far as the laws of probability, my lady, these cannot be broken, any more than any other mathematical principle. But laws of physics and mathematics are like a coordinate system that runs in only one dimension. Perhaps there is another dimension perpendicular to it, invisible to those laws of physics, describing the same things with different rules, and those rules are written in our hearts, in a deep place where we cannot go and read them except in our dreams.

A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement but a probability distribution of where the wings might be

My own face-offs with death had made me see death differently. Death had become not a possibility, but a probability, so I made peace with that dark horseman, and that peace has stayed with me on my borrowed time.

specified confidence intervals (for example, the statement that 40 per cent of the balls in the jar are white, at a confidence interval of 95 per cent, implies that the precise value lies somewhere between 35 and 45 per cent - 40 plus or minus 5 per cent).

Original Design.' The bell curve that we encountered in Chapter 3 represents the normal distribution, in which 68.2 per cent of outcomes are within one standard deviation (plus or minus) of the mean.

The odds of the average American being shot to death are 1 in 314. But he or she is even more likely to commit suicide (1 in 119); more likely still to die in a fatal road accident (1 in 78); and most likely of all to die of cancer (1 in 5).11

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.