123 Quotes About Probability

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.

We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to have, because it is an assertion of stoic conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason. If you have to believe it on faith, you have no reason to believe it at all.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and reminded myself for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that the only sane response was to continue carrying the tune.

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

The future is certain. It is just not known.

Everything in our life is a probability apart from two facts – Birth and Death

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

Son, anything can happen to anyone," my father told me, "but it usually doesn't.