Background
Probability Theory
Pascal's Triangle & Probability
Application of Probability Theory
Pascal's wager
Objections
Homework
Joyce Lam Nga Ching
2001714828
Phil1007
12-4-2002
27-4-2002
Famous Quotes
Plato (428 - 348 B.C.):
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.):
"Man is by nature a political animal."
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650): "Cogito, ergo sum"
(Latin for "I think, therefore I am").
Voltaire (1694 - 1778):
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 78):
"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626):
"Knowledge is power."
Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832):
"The greatest happiness of the
greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804):
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason
but of imagination."
Confucius (551 - 479 B.C.):
"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as
first principles."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 82): "Nature is a mutual cloud, which is always
and never the same."
Friedrich Engels (1820 - 95):
"The state is not`abolished,' it
withers away."
Georg Hegel (1770 - 1831):
"What experience and history teach us
is this-that people and
governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles
deduced from it."
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679): "The life of a man (in
a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
John Locke (1632 - 1704):
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond
his experience."
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527):
"God is not willing to do everything,
and thus take away our
free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."
Karl Marx (1818 - 83):
"The proletarians have nothing to lose
(in this revolution) but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the
world, unite!"
"Religion is the opium of the people."
"The class struggle necessarily leads to the
dictatorship of the proletariat."
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 73):
"Liberty consists in doing what one
desires."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900):
"I teach you the Superman. Man is
something to be surpassed."
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809):
"Suspicion is the companion of mean
souls, and the bane of all good society."
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970):
"It is undesirable to believe a
proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."
Seneca (c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65):
"Even while they teach, men
learn."
Socrates (c. 470 - 399 B.C.):
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Reference : http://www.bordwell.com/DeskReference/index26.html