Probability Theory Quotes

“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

“Hard work increases the probability of serendipity.”
― Ken Poirot

“Once upon a time there was much talk of the apathy of the masses. Their silence was the crucial fact for an earlier generation. Today, however, the masses act not by deflection but by infection, tainting opinion polls and forecasts with their multifarious phantasies. Their abstention and their silence are no longer determining factors (that stage was still nihilistic); what counts now is their use of the cogs in the workings of uncertainty. Where the masses once sported with their voluntary servitude, they now sport with their involuntary incertitude. Unbeknownst to the experts who scrutinize them and the manipulators who believe they can influence them, they have grasped the fact that politics is virtually dead, and that they now have a new game to play, just as exciting as the ups and downs of the stock market. This game enables them to make audiences, charismas, levels of prestige and the market prices of images dance up and down with an intolerable facility. The masses had been deliberately demoralized and de-ideologized in order that they might become the live prey of probability theory, but now it is they who destabilize all images and play games with political truth.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.”
― Pierre-Simon Laplace

“You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!”
― Ken Poirot, Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!

“It’s said that ‘you have only one chance’ - but thereafter you have many chances – don’t ever quit because chance has only a fifty-fifty probability and you never know when the probability will be in your favour. So toss around until heads you win and tails you don’t lose.”
― Amit Abraham

“* Thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter doesn’t disappear.
* Pay attention to coincidence.
* You can choose your identity."
 
And a recent one: Only the present moment matters.”
― Wunder Wend

“Probability is the key of confusions.”
― Nitesh Sabne

“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.”
― Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

“The mathematics of probability enters when we seek a method for enumerating possible cases without actually counting them off”
― Eric Temple Bell