The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
quote by Edwin Conklin
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Life is a school of probability.
quote by Walter Bagehot
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But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
quote by Joseph Butler
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Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist." In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up! But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability... A day of unlocked potential. Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you? Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!
Vera Nazarian in The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
quote by Nellie Bly
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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
We have nothing to lose. But the probability to win is even smaller.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
quote by B.F. Skinner
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
quote by William Osler
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
quote by C.S. Lewis
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Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.
quote by Claude Shannon
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Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
quote by David R. Ellis
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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.
quote by Peter Drucker
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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.
quote by Abraham Lincoln
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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
quote by Thomas Huxley
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
quote by Andy Rooney
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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
quote by Edward Thorndike
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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
quote by Max Frisch
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
quote by Edward Gibbon
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I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never going to teach first and second grade.
quote by Mary J. Wilson
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
quote by Tom Stoppard
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