Let me throw a mathematical dilemma at you - there`s 500 left. Well how come the odds of you winning are a million to one?
Simon Cowell (1959 - )
Let me throw a mathematical dilemma at you - there`s 500 left. Well how come the odds of you winning are a million to one?
Simon Cowell (1959 - )
Essentially, all models are wrong; some are useful.
George E.P. Box (1919 - 2013)
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the questions.
Samuel Karlin (1924 - 2007)
While nothing is more uncertain than the duration of a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Elizur Wright (1804 - 1885)
One sees in this essay that the theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus.
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827)
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
William H. Mauldin (1921 - 2003)
Luck is probability taken personally. It is the excitement of bad math.
Penn F. Jillette (1955 - )
Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
This day may possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.
Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)