#probability

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#life #life

But to us, probability is the very guide of life. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. ↗

— David R. Ellis

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Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. ↗

— Andrew Lo

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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. ↗

— John Major

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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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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. ↗

— Andy Rooney

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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. ↗

— Max Frisch

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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. ↗

— Nate Silver

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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