Quotes About Probability

The mind arises there and then where and when an ability of making the probabilty-believabilty choice arises.

The mind arises there and then where and when an ability of making the probability-believability choice arises.

If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty."

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

It's the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

There's a 30% chance that it's already raining.

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

Chance is a second master.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

Chances are where you find them

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.