Top 1200 Probability Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in a serial murder case or robberies in a serial bank robber case - and it spatially analyzes the point pattern of incidents, and creates a probability surface from those, working from the basis of an algorithm that says people offend close to where they live, but not too close.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. ...they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

My theory is people say under pressure for the most part what they really mean.

It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love

I don't have musical theory or great chord knowledge, but what I have got me where I am.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.

The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes than Reasonings, Hypotheses, and Deductions are; ... These are things we are sure of, so far as our Senses are not fallible; and which, in probability, have been ever since the Creation, and will remain to the End of the World, in the same Condition we now find them.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.

I talked about the human suffering in Iraq. And I also saw the need to advance a freedom agenda. Imagine a world in which Saddam Hussein was there, stirring up even more trouble in a part of the world that had so much resentment and so much hatred that people came and killed 3,000 of our citizens. I've heard this theory about everything was just fine until we arrived and the stir-up-the-hornet's- nest theory. It just doesn't hold water, as far as I'm concerned. The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.

I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts; it is equally true that facts can not be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.