123 Quotes About Probability

Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.

A cat has nine lives but a Schrodinger cat is both dead and alive at the same time....

I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.

People’s emotional response to extremely long odds led them to reverse their usual taste for risk, and to become risk seeking when pursuing a long-shot gain and risk avoiding when faced with the extremely remote possibility of loss. (Which is why they bought both lottery tickets and insurance.)

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible PAP category. From this, as we shall see, they often make the illogical deduction that the hypothesis of God's existence, and the hypothesis of his non-existence, have exactly equal probability of being right.

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

He who jumps for the sake of jumping will probably keep jumping until he jumps back into his own jumping ground.