Quotes About Probability

You can have a couple of games where you play bad or very good. I think I'm a type of player that days before I know how I feel, if I'm playing good, if I'm playing bad. This is not like lottery here.

I don't believe in luck.

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

Does the occurrence of one impossible thing increase the likelihood of a second.

If we have drifted 10 heads above the zero line in our coin flip experiment, what is the probability of getting 10 tails in a row to return us to zero? About 1 in 1,000.

Life is a game of statistics. There are no guarantees, but the more positive effort you put in, the more likely you will be to win.

The biologist Edwin Conklin, speaking of evolution, stated that the probability of life originating by accident is "comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary originating from an explosion in a print shop." That sounds very unscientific, coming from a scientist, but it's true.

Failure Is Not Predictive

We're never quite so powerful as we feel, in this free state," she whispered in the rushing wind. "Because our usual bodies are left behind, and our moving mind complexes can draw only upon the chance energies that they happen to grasp from the atoms of the air or other substances we possess, by the linkage of probability. All our power lies in that control of probability, and we must strike where it will serve.

witch. A being born a little different, he preferred to phrase it. He remembered reading something about the Rhine experiments, at Duke University. Some people, those sober scientists had proved, perceived the world with something beyond the ordinary physical senses. Some people, they had demonstrated, displayed a direct control over probability, without the use of any physical agency.

Basically in every decade since 1840, life expectancy has increased by two to three years. So if a child born in 2007 has a 50 per cent probability of living to 104, then a child born a decade earlier (1997) has a 50% chance of reaching 101 or 102; a decade earlier (1987) the range is 98 to 100; a decade earlier (1977) 95 to 98; for 1967 it is to 92 to 96; and a decade earlier still (1957) the range is 89 to 94, and so on.

The nature of any given probable action does not lead to any particular inevitable act." [16]

The one thing that was one hundred percent assured was that nothing was one hundred percent assured

If the origin of life had really been a random event , then it had really been a miracle.

single electron, or a single photon, on its way through one hole in the wall, obeys the statistical laws which are only appropriate if it 'knows' whether or not the other hole is open. This is the central mystery of the quantum world.

To win the lottery once may be evidence of luck or skill; to win it repeatedly is evidence of skill.

You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day. 51

people on average prefer to bet on their own judgment over an equally probable chance event when they consider themselves competent about the event being judged.

Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.