Probability Quotes

Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution o...

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our exi...

Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the...

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very ...

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence an...

Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workabl...

And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question o...

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even mo...

The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it wil...

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most pr...

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probabi...

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the sci...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as a...

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of...

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...