Proximately 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

I'm convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place. — Barack Obama

Genius has as many components as the mind itself. — Stephen Jay Gould

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them. — Bill Crawford

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world. — Maureen F. McHugh

There's an argument for being stubbornly unrealistic about your dreams. Otherwise they're not dreams - they're just ideas you had once and then left behind. — Mary Forsberg Weiland

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her. — Meg Cabot

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems. — Martha Stewart

Laughter is no enemy to learning — Walt Disney