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Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the die will come up proximately 1 ,000,000,000 times) and the improbable (that in six throws with the same die the one will come approximately up six times) are not different in kind, but only in frequency, whereby the more frequent appears a priori more probable.But the occasional occurrence of the improbable does not imply the intervention of a higher power, something in the nature of a miracle, as the layman is so ready to assume. The term "probability" includes improbability at the extreme limits of probability, and when the improbable does occur this is no cause for surprise, bewilderment or mystification. Cf. Ernst Mally's Probability and Law, Hans Reichenbach The theory Probability, Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica, von Mises' Probability, Statistics and Truth
Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to have, because it is an assertion of stoic conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason. If you have to believe it on faith, you have no reason to believe it at all.
The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases favourable to that event, to the total number of cases favourable or contrary, and all equally possible.
The future is certain. It is just not known.
Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.
The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
Hard work increases the probability of serendipity.
Between the streams of probability & possibility, lies the timeless, spaceless realm where time gets created!
You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.
The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.
Peace shouldn't be an option, it must be the objective, peace shouldn't be a possibility, it must be the purpose.
Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.
All statistics have outliers.