Probability

  • Let me throw a mathematical dilemma at you - there`s 500 left. Well how come the odds of you winning are a million to one?

    Simon Cowell (1959 - )

  • Essentially, all models are wrong; some are useful.

    George E.P. Box (1919 - 2013)

  • The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the questions.

    Samuel Karlin (1924 - 2007)

  • While nothing is more uncertain than the duration of a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

    Elizur Wright (1804 - 1885)

  • One sees in this essay that the theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus.

    Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827)

  • I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

    William H. Mauldin (1921 - 2003)

  • Luck is probability taken personally. It is the excitement of bad math.

    Penn F. Jillette (1955 - )

  • Life is a school of probability.

    Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)

  • This day may possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.

    Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)

  • A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

    James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

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