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Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
An inference of perspective,
a glimpse of regularity,
causation of habit,
and the only recurrence:
my faith in you.
Hope attracts chances.
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.
Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.
Well, then, let's not just trust the likelihood based on painting.
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
Believe is possibilities.
We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
Random events often look like nonrandom events, and in interpreting human affairs we must take care not to confuse the two.
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.
Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way
a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable
Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.
I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy
that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.
Possibility is positive.
So the probability I'm not there..., but you want I to be there opps so sorry I can't be but you can make a discussion with my books and if you want more just P.M. - That's how it works and It will work.
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Estimating is what you do when you don't know.
It is likely that unlikely things should happen
Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy:
Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.
Maximum improbability equals maximum possibility.
We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]
This field of activity generated a vast literature of carefully assembled one-line omens on this pattern: If A happened, B will happen. Here the sought-for outcome B, known as the apodosis, is deemed to be the consequence of an observed phenomenon, the protasis A. One
I don't believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
Hope is confident believe.
The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.
Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability.
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
Whether statistics be an art or a science ... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me
The motives of the writer form as important an ingredient in the analysis or his history, as the facts he records. Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted.
wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may be, such a hopeless task before her.
The probable is what usually happens.
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
One in five chance
The waves of probabilities collapse into a physical reality through observation by a conscious mind.
It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].
Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.
The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
Droplets of yes and no, in an ocean of maybe.
certain of certain certainties.......
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.
Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort of instinct, often without being able to give a reason for it.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be ...
Chance is the providence of adventurers.
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits.
The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human.
That means one hundred and fifty million to one.
Which means one hundred and fifty million in one.
The first thing we looked at, in what case were people more likely to be attracted to the jar or jam, so in which case are people more likely to stop when they saw the display of jams and what we found was that more people stopped when there were 24 jams.
Each empty seat in the auditorium, is the probability of what you should have done and not done.
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.
Assume that you live in a town with two hospitals - one large, the other small. On a given day 60 percent of those born in one of the two hospitals are boys. Which hospital is it likely to be?
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.
We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
I like the probability of the impossible.
It is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
You can't talk to thermodynamics and you can't pray to probability theory. You
The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.