Probabilistic Quotes

#1. It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

John Harsanyi

#2. Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.

Michael Lewis

#3. ...the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

Barry Ritholtz

#6. Similar probabilistic models have become central to economics, sociology, psychology, political science and the other social and natural sciences.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to two hundred thousand words my probabilistic mind tells me some are wrong.

Alan Greenspan

#8. We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Paul Gibbons

#9. So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.

James Gleick

#10. Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

Michael Lewis

#11. Classical mechanics gave us a deterministic view of the world. Quantum mechanics, conversely, gives us a probabilistic view instead. According to Newton, if you know the cause af an event, you can predict the outcome. According to M.Born, you can only predict how likely that outcome will be.

Leonid V. Azaroff

#12. The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed - such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

Albert Ellis

#13. Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

Brian Greene

#14. To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

Virginia Hamilton

#15. God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

Peter Kreeft

#16. Why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Gaston Leroux

#17. I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.

David Beckham

#18. The man that wars and judges others is eternally lost. The man that wars and judges himself is eternally found.

Jason Versey

#19. A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

Lord Byron