Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high."
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Probability
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Benjamin Graham
Investor, Author
"Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong."
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen."
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"A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps."
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"Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy."
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"An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth."
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"Almost all life depends on probabilities."
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"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability."
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"The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance."
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"What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better."
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"Arguments derived from probabilities are idle."
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"Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well."
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"If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap."
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"Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards"
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"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."
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"Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off."
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"Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities."
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"If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly."
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"and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality."
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"Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties"
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