When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.
The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.
I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
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.
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.
Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.
If you leave school at 16 then, in all probability, there is a machine that can do what you can do better and cheaper. And Trump can't do anything to change that.
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a low probability given the initial state of the universe.
The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.
Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.
Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
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.
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.
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.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.
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