Janet Evanovich Quotes

I'm always trying to calculate the mathematical probability of certain outcomes.

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Very low probability events occur very rarely, but sometimes they do happen.

Life is a school of probability

it is … not a good idea to resort to tossing coins.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

Probability is the very guide of life.

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.