and realized that death
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Probability
The probability of finding
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store’s focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business. Gabriel Zaid
The issue, as correctly
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, … Read more
The principle of [divine]
The principle of [divine] purpose… stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks… The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered. Ernst Boris Chain
When asked what he
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%. Enrico Fermi
Does the logic connect?
Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally be the House. It’s fine to gamble, as long as you’re the House. Also, listen to critical feedback, particularly from friends. Generally they will be thinking it but they won’t tell you. Elon … Read more
The first step is
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. Elon Musk
What I\\’m trying to
What I’m trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better. Elon Musk
One influential philosophical position
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of … Read more
Current organisms have a
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they’d have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of \”likelihood\” used in statistics. Elliott Sober