Probabilities And Statistics Quotes & Sayings

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability. — John Maynard Keynes

He did not believe in luck at all, good or bad. Gamblers believed in luck, and he was not a gambler. Never had been, never would be. John Henry Holliday believed in mathematics, in statistics, in the computation of odds. Fifty-two cards in a deck. Make it easy. Say it's fifty. Any card has a 2 percent chance of being dealt from a full deck. Keep track of what's out. Adjust the probabilities as the hand progresses. — Mary Doria Russell

However, as pursuit of happiness morphed into pursuit of material, all of the promises became compromised. So what went wrong? How did this happen? — Bruce H. Lipton

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. — Alan Greenspan

you have not even gone to a single class, yet. — V.J. Erickson

I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken. — Rick Perry

If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense. — Sara Sheridan

Its not my job to feed your kids — James Moore

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You have to always remember to be yourself. — Vanessa Lachey

Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that
they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is
in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction! — Deyth Banger

Their faith was based on such a strong personal experience of the dead and risen Christ that they feared nothing and no one, and even saw persecution as a cause of honor that enabled them to follow in Jesus' footsteps and to be like him, witnessing with their life. — Pope Francis

Coaches do get very nervous. — Urban Meyer

It is like putting a dehumidifier and a humidifier in the same room and letting them fight it out. — Steven Wright

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know. — Michelle Obama

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory. — Ann Voskamp

I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data. — Leonard Mlodinow

Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good. — Vaddey Ratner

Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved. — Albert E. Bowen