Top 1200 Probability Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

I believe in the theory that one cannot make a good film; it just happens.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero.

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.

The most important thing you can do individually and organizationally is to pay attention to your own creativity. Sports psychologists call this muscle memory or paying attention to your perfect performance. In your own life you can notice when you do something that works right for you and celebrate it. The more you do this, the greater the probability that you will act creatively in future situations.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.

On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to tell people that. With global warming, the probability of a bad outcome if we stay on our current emission trends is incredibly high. If you know a bad outcome is likely to happen, what right do you have not to communicate that? You go into a doctor's office, what are they going to do - not tell you the diagnosis?

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very grave seriousness of this war, to make them feel that we are in this war to win, and the probability is that our entering this war is going to be the deciding factor, and that the burden of the success is going to rest upon the United States.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.