Paaseiland Wiki Quotes & Sayings

Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the die will come up proximately 1 ,000,000,000 times) and the improbable (that in six throws with the same die the one will come approximately up six times) are not different in kind, but only in frequency, whereby the more frequent appears a priori more probable.
But the occasional occurrence of the improbable does not imply the intervention of a higher power, something in the nature of a miracle, as the layman is so ready to assume. The term "probability" includes improbability at the extreme limits of probability, and when the improbable does occur this is no cause for surprise, bewilderment or mystification.
Cf. Ernst Mally's Probability and Law, Hans Reichenbach The theory Probability, Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica, von Mises' Probability, Statistics and Truth — Max Frisch

at home the very walls lend you strength, — Sergei Lukyanenko

How much simpler it would have been to become a beast than to live through this, Valerie thought. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom ... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen. — Freddy Adu

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them. — Philippe Perrin

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas. — Tim Gunn

There's a place for farts, and there's a place for sharts. — J.E. Haldeman

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies. — Tony Judt

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. — Tove Jansson

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear. — Beeban Kidron

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. — Al Gore