Mathematical Certainty Quotes

#1. While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but the percentages remain constant

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

John Allen Paulos

#3. Because of the collapsing economy of America, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that this ship will soon flounder.

Nicholas Notarberardino

#4. Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.

Max Hawthorne

#6. A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.

Carl Gustav Hempel

#7. There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

Wallace D. Wattles

#8. And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye.

Lauren Myracle

#9. When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

Laura L. Carstensen

#10. Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

Jack Kornfield

#11. Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may vastly magnify its damage by the power of horrific images.

Lance Morrow

#12. He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close enough that she could hear his heart beating. I would never intentionally hurt you, Aiwattsi. If I ever did break your heart, it would break mine too.

Victoria Vane

#13. And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Joseph Glanvill

#14. You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

Matt Ridley

#15. Florentino Ariza was left with the nagging suspicion that this was not her last word. He believed that when a woman says no, she is waiting to be urged before making her final decision, but with her he could not risk making the same mistake twice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#16. I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand,

P.G. Wodehouse

#17. The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

Swami Kriyananda

#18. Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

Alafair Burke

#19. When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.

William A. Adams

#20. And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

Phil Ochs