Quotes About Probability

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

By the laws of probability, most decisions made under pressure should be flawed ones, yet psychologists have found that people routinely make correct judgments most of the time, even with limited information. One

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

I believe in myself and the goodness in others, and I think anyone who rolls the dice with me has good odds.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

I'm of the opinion that it flies in the face of reason not to believe. The odds are too great against you to not believe that there is some sort of extraterrestrial life out there.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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

GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE.

It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.

Could Have" by the Polish Nobel Laureate Wis?awa Szymborska: "It could have happened. / It had to happen. / It happened earlier. Later. / Nearer. Farther off. / It happened, but not to you." The poet goes on to contemplate the nature of luck. "You were in luck—there was a forest. / You were in luck—there were no trees. / You were in luck—a rake, a hook, a beam, a brake, / a jamb, a turn, a quarter-inch, an instant.

the worry habit is reinforcing in the same sense that superstitions are. Since people worry about many things that have a very low probability of actually occurring—a loved one dying in a plane crash, going bankrupt, and the like—there is, to the primitive limbic brain at least, something magical about it. Like an amulet that wards off some anticipated evil, the worry psychologically gets the credit for preventing the danger it obsesses about. The

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones — only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.

A million coincidences had to occur in order for you to exist