Quotes about Probability

According to Feynman, a system has not just one history but every possible history.

There is a history of the universe in which England win the World Cup again, though maybe the probability is low.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Or consider another field where one can use games to implant an understanding of basic principles. All scientific thinking is in terms of probability. The old eternal verities are merely a high degree of likeliness; the immutable laws of nature are just statistical averages. How does one get these profoundly unobvious notions into children's heads? By playing roulette with them, by spinning coins and drawing lots. By teaching them all kinds of games with cards and boards and dice.

Everything in life is luck.

the Christianity of Christendom, takes this into account; it takes away from Christianity the offense, the paradox, etc., and instead of that introduces, probability, the plainly comprehensible. That is, it transforms Christianity into something entirely different from what it is in the New Testament, yea, into exactly the opposite; and this is the Christianity of Christendom, of us men.

"Murphy's Law": If something can go wrong, it will.

He knew this was among the alternatives today, a fact along lines of the future radiating from this position in time-space.

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.