All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose....
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.
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 nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
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.
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be....
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.
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