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Tag Name "Probability" (194)

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Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.
Kenneth Appel
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Probability is the very guide of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
Ian Hacking
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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George Boole
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
Dennis Lindley
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... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.
Anthony de Jasay
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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
E. W. Howe
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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
Aristotle
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If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.
Earl Wilson
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But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.
Arthur Eddington
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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a low probability given the initial state of the universe.
Elliott Sober
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The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.
Bart Kosko
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What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.
Elon Musk
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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
Francis Crick
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
C. S. Lewis
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If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
Chris Hughes
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