Probability Quotes

“Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“As the sun sets, something in me rises! Do you think it could be my soul? I feel it's a big probability!”
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819”
― Pierre Simon Laplace

“Oh, nothing can happen more than once, but all things must happen one day.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Before Watchmen: Nite Owl / Dr. Manhattan

“The Coin of Life example: Say you have a coin with heads on one side and tails on the other side. One side would mean good and the other bad, based on your interpretation or bet of which side of the coin represents a win for you. However, you can't decide the outcome and the coin flips many times throughout your life. Finding balance is flipping the coin in such a way that neither of the sides is of greater importance to you, but if the coin lands on the middle bit, you realize that the space between what you consider good or bad is so small and the probability of landing there is also incredibly small without continuous practice. However, no matter the outcome, you choose to accept the coin as it is, with both sides, and appreciate the importance of both in your life. For the coin of life has meaning and value no matter what side it lands on. It's each individual's choice whether to bet on the outcome or not, but ultimately your coin of life will be spent somehow.”
― Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

“Keep trying; failures increase the probability of success.”
― Ken Poirot

“What luck has gave you will probably leave you.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Son, anything can happen to anyone," my father told me, "but it usually doesn't.”
― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.”
― Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

“Any impossibility turned into a possibility is magic.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“How results that are not indicative of anything can be produced by pure chance—given a small enough number of cases—is something you can test for yourself at small cost. Just start tossing a penny. How often will it come up heads? Half the time of course. Everyone knows that. Well, let’s check that and see…. I have just tried ten tosses and got heads eight times, which proves that pennies come up heads eighty percent of the time.”
― Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

“I don't care about probabilities. If something were one-in-a-million, I would wonder if the one had found me. It's the uncertainty that's torture.”
― Jackie Lea Sommers, Truest

“Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the die will come up proximately 1,000,000,000 times) and the improbable (that in six throws with the same die the one will come approximately up six times) are not different in kind, but only in frequency, whereby the more frequent appears a priori more probable.
But the occasional occurrence of the improbable does not imply the intervention of a higher power, something in the nature of a miracle, as the layman is so ready to assume. The term "probability" includes improbability at the extreme limits of probability, and when the improbable does occur this is no cause for surprise, bewilderment or mystification.

Cf. Ernst Mally's Probability and Law, Hans Reichenbach The theory Probability, Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica, von Mises' Probability, Statistics and Truth”
― Max Frisch, Homo Faber

“من الصعب كبْحُ ميلنا الطبيعي للتعميم ، و إذا ما تعزز الربط بين الأحداث بأحكامٍ قَبْلية أيضًا ، فإنّ هذا الميل يصبح أقوى”
― Elise Janvresse, قانون تسلسل الأحداث.. هل هو صدفة أم حتمية؟

“You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!”
― Ken Poirot, Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!

“Time did exist here, in small amounts (well some of the time) – and there were feint eddies and currents of time here, things that were barely tangible. Feint forces of the universe they were, nearly indiscernible from the nothingness like a warm breeze on a hot summer night. How long he had been here, he knew not – but he was slowly learning to master these barely tangible waves like a new surfer with one foot on the sandy beach and the other on a shiny new board of Hatred. Revenge splashed around his feet like the cold waves of the ocean of Time. Nearby, two other inmates collided with each other, bounced apart spread-eagled and spiraled off into the distance in infinite slowness. The Wetsuit of Insanity clung to his spiritual body, isolating him from the timelessness that seemed to exist here. A wind of Change blew at him from behind and he pushed off from the beach with iron determination and a mental clarity hereto before unknown to him. Something in the microcosm that didn’t even have a name went ‘bling’ and against all the laws of probability, Brad Xyl opened his eyes.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“...the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“إنّ أحداثًا استثنائية تقع يوميًّا و تستحْوِذُ على انتباهنا خطأً ، عندما نكون شاهدين عليها ، و من خلال انبهارنا ، ننسى الأحداث العديدة التي لم تقع”
― Elise Janvresse, قانون تسلسل الأحداث.. هل هو صدفة أم حتمية؟

“تُستغَلُّ غرابةُ وقوعِ الأحداثِ الاستثنائية من قِبَل المنجّمين و قارئي الطالع. إنهم بمضاعفة توقعاتهم ينجحون في معاينة تحقق بعضها ، و يعتمدون على ذاكرتنا الانتقائية للاحتفاظ بهذه الأخيرة فقط”
― Elise Janvresse, قانون تسلسل الأحداث.. هل هو صدفة أم حتمية؟

“On Improbability:
There's an infinite number of things that can go wrong but only a finite number of things that can go right.
In the infinitude of unlikely events many will happen with unnerving frequency.
Tautology: A given improbable event isn't likely to happen.
Corollary: Shit happens, but you'll not know its ilk.
I'm certain that nothing is certain.”
― Kalifer Deil

“If skeptic can weakly force E, then he can force E.”
― Glenn Shafer

“So the probability I'm not there..., but you want I to be there opps so sorry I can't be but you can make a discussion with my books and if you want more just P.M. - That's how it works and It will work.”
― Deyth Banger

“As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese," then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him.”
― Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

“Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory.”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“Being nice is state of" Probability ", not a state of" possibility ".”
― Deyth Banger

“إن حدسنا غالبًا ما يخدعنا عندما يتعلق الأمر بتقدير حظوظ وقوع الأحداث ، خصوصًا إذا كانت نادرة”
― Elise Janvresse, قانون تسلسل الأحداث.. هل هو صدفة أم حتمية؟

“نحن نقدِّر تكرار الوقائع انطلاقًا من معيشتنا ، و كلما كان حدثٌ ما نادرًا تراجعت قدرة تجربتنا الخاصة عن مساعدتنا”
― Elise Janvresse, قانون تسلسل الأحداث.. هل هو صدفة أم حتمية؟