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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.
George Boole
Knowledge
Change
Expectation
Circumstances
Would
Perfect
Partial
Demand
Occurrence
Leave
Nor
Affecting
Probabilities
Probability
Acquaintance
Room
Certainty
Theory
Event
Founded
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Aristotle
Truth
Good
Man
Truth Is
Natural
Men
Guess
Approximately
Faculty
True
Instinct
Likely
Also
Make
Makes
Arrive
Same
Probabilities
May
Noted
Who
Hence
Sufficient
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
Michael Shermer
Faith
Nothing
Evidence
Logic
Religious
Religious Faith
Factors
Emotional
Host
Probabilities
Depends
Psychological
Little
Social
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
Murray Gell-Mann
Sometimes
Never
Very
Close
Probabilities
Really
Certainties
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Charles William Eliot
Business
Judgements
Probabilities
Proceeds
Certainties
Beliefs