#probabilities

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. ↗

— Charles W. Eliot

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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. ↗

— George Boole

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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. ↗

— William Reddington Hewlett

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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. ↗

— Aristotle

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A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good. ↗

— Amy Summers

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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

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Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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