Quotes about Probability
A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.
— Aldous Huxley
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
— Winston Churchill
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
— Cormac McCarthy
In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
— Jurgen Habermas
... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.
— Joseph Heller
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
a man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur.
— Milan Kundera
The chance of receiving a signal from a civilization exactly as advanced as we are should be minuscule. If they were even a little behind us, they would lack the technological capability to communicate with us at all. So the most likely signal would come from a civilization much more advanced.
— Carl Sagan
Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.
— Herman Melville
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
— Aristotle
Statistics is not an exact science. It is an investigative technique.
— Jordan Peterson
anything is possible but probably not that
— Jordan Peterson