Probability Quotes

“A forecast is not a prophecy; it is a statement of what is most likely to happen.”

“Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge.”

“Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.”

“Life cannot have had a random beginning... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10^40,000.”

“The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability.”

“A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave no room for a theory of probabilities.”

“According to the laws of probabilities, the cards have no memory and no conscience.”

“If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.”

“Life is a game of chance, but with a biased dice.”

“Probability is a Janus-faced concept. On the one side it is statistical... On the other side it is epistemological, dedicated to assessing reasonable degrees of belief.”

“It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.”

“Every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities.”

“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”

“The world is not a deterministic system, as Laplace thought; it is a system of probabilities.”

“I don't believe in luck. I believe in odds. You can't be a professional gambler and believe in luck.”

“Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.”

“The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.”

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.”

“Probability of success is minimal.”

“The true logic for this world is the calculus of probabilities.”