Background Probability Theory Pascal's Triangle & Probability Application of Probability Theory Pascal's wager Objections Homework Joyce Lam Nga Ching 2001714828 Phil1007
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Probability Quotes The excitement that a gambler feels when making a bet is equal to the amount he might win times the probability of winning it. -Blaise Pascal In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC: Rome Press Inc., 1988
Life is a school of probability. -Walter
Bagehot
To us probability is the very guide of life. -Bishop
Bulter
"I think you’re begging the question, "said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!" -Agatha
Christie
The [theory of probability]...enters into the regulation of some of the most important practical concerns of modern life. -George
Chrystal
It
is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine what is
true, we ought to follow what is most probable. -Rene
Descartes
This
is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers...There is a divinity in
odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death. -Sir
John Falstaff
Lest
men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. -John
Gay In J.R. Newman (ed.) The World of
Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. p. 1334.
It
has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree
than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no
direct relation between truth of a proposition and its probability.
Probability begins and ends with probability. -John
Maynard Keynes The Application of
Probability to Conduct
He
who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000
probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from
certain. -Voltaire
In J.R. Newman (ed.) The
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