of Probability
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. Arthur Eddington
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. George Eliot
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. George Boole
Fate laughs at probabilities. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. Branch Rickey
A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. Italian Proverb