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• It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn’t that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that’s actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.

  George Saunders

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Probability, Bearing

• 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 John Boole

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Probability, Expectation

• Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

  Claude Shannon

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  Tags in Information, Probability

• Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

  Lewis Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Probability, Statistically

• I consider it probably one of the biggest honors to be in the Academy. There are only like 1300 actors in it, and as far as I know, you’re a member for life. To this day, I’m wondering how lucky I was.

  William Sanderson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Probability, Lucky

• The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

  Edward Gibbon

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  Tags in Probability, Laws

• We can say with certainty – or 90% probability – that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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  Tags in Probability, Industries, Born

• From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

  Tom Stoppard

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  Tags in Probability, Facts

• The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Probability

• If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

  Vannevar Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Probability, Arithmetic, Mathematician

• Life is a school of probability.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Probability