Probability Quotations | Page 2

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.