Top 1200 Probability Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

What does reflect reality very well is complexity theory, which comes from physics. I'm the one pioneering the idea of bringing it to capital markets. When you look at capital markets through the lens of complexity theory, you ask "what's the scale of the system?" Scale is a fancy word for size. What measures are you using? If you look at total debt, the concentration of assets in the five largest banks, what percentage of the total assets of the five largest banks are interconnected? What you see is a very densely connected, fragile system that could collapse at any moment.

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be. I have no idea. That's my existentialism. I am a student of uncertainty, I have no idea where the stock market is going to be. So when I am creating trades in my portfolio for my clients, I am agnostic. I just want to enhance the probability that I make money come what may.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an impoverished view of the kinds of questions we humans can ask, such as "Why am I here?", "What happens after we die?", "Is there a God?" If you refuse to acknowledge their appropriateness, you end up with a zero probability of God after examining the natural world because it doesn't convince you on a proof basis.

You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little corner of it. Pi occupies a key place in trigonometry too. It is intimately related to e, and to imaginary numbers. Pi even shows up in the mathematics of probability

That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

I've never been much for theory and scales.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.... It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc.

I have a theory that people are either born 'yeses' or 'nos'.

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability, almost the certainty, of ad hoc, temporary, insecure and part-time work and unpaid 'trainee' pseudo-jobs deceitfully rebranded as 'practices' - all considerably below the skills they have acquired and eons below the level of their expectations.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

We want best efforts guided by theory.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.