A Quote by E. W. Howe

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

E. W. Howe

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Certainty Only Probability Reasonable

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E. W. Howe
American - Novelist
May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

John Maynard Keynes

Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.

Ashley Montagu

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Tom Stoppard

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

Timothy Keller

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

William James

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

Tessa Jowell

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Giovanni Battista Beccaria

The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

Dennis Lindley

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

Peter Drucker

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.

William C. Brown

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

C. S. Lewis

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

Tony Robbins

It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and creative acts. But the Hartle-Hawking probability is not dependent on any supernatural considerations; Hartle and Hawking do not sum over anything supernatural in their path integral derivation of the probability amplitude.

Quentin Smith

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