Quotes About Probability

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If something wonderful happens, chances are astronomically high that it will happen again.

Hay un lugar en el mundo donde lo imposible es posible, se trata de la ficción, es decir, la literatura. Allí las leyes del cálculo de probabilidades pueden ser infringidas, allí puede aparecer un hombre más poderoso que el azar. El Ruletista no podía vivir en el mundo, lo cual es en cierto modo una forma de decir que el mundo en el que él vivía era ficticio, que era literatura.

Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.

maximum of these minimum values; this value is called the maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and

maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and 10,

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

If something bad can happen, it will.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

Entropy can be regarded as a measure of ignorance

Even pregnancies should be included in the games of probabilities, like tossing a coin.

Even your birth was just a probability of an ovum meeting up with the spermatozoon and becoming fertilised inside the uterus.

Risk taking is the game of dice, which is always unpredictable and full of probabilities.

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Le hasard est le seul roi légitime dans l'univers.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Economic, financial, and political predictors… are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients—and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Indeed, the uncertainty principle ensures that in the nature of things physics is unable to do more than make statistical predictions.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)

Just because something's always happened in the past doesn't mean it will definitely happen in the future.

As a "Rule of Thumb", Psychologists use 95% certainty as being acceptable. They allow a 5% chance of being wrong. If possible, they prefer 99% certainty, i.e. only 1% chance of being wrong. This is why Psychological research is usually expressed statistically….