123 Quotes About Probability

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

It is highly probable that we choose our posture, not our problems.

If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they’re erratic. People do crazy things that don’t make sense.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.