Dennis Lindley Quotes

#1. As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese, "then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him.

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

#2. In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

Dennis Lindley

#3. I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

Martin McGuinness

#4. It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

Dennis Lindley

#5. Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.

Dennis Lindley

#6. When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

Tila Tequila

#7. In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation - and reason is the best confirmation.

Dennis Lindley

#8. Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.

Dennis Lindley

#9. Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.

Dennis Lindley

#10. Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.

Dennis Lindley

#11. The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

Dennis Lindley

#12. Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

Dennis Lindley

#13. Rebecca stared back at him, still dazed. She'd forgotten how to speak; it seemed an unimportant skill, anyhow, when such kisses were to be had, when a whole world could be made from a kiss.

Julie Anne Long

#14. It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

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#15. God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

Mother Teresa

#16. Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

Dennis Lindley

#17. The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

Ian Brown

#18. I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.

Donald Miller