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Letter "P" » probability
«It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
forecasting, forecasts, in advance, predict, probability, publish, range, weather forecast, weather forecasting
«Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero»
«The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.»
Author: Rensis Likert
| About:
Business,
Goals,
Greatness,
Loyalty,
Motivation,
Success
| Keywords:
Among the, group, in all probability, loyalties, loyalty, members, motivation, probability, The Group
«Law of Probability Dispersal : Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed»
Author: Roger Angell
| Keywords:
dispersal, distributed, distributes, Distributing, evenly, fan, fanned, fanning, fan in, hits, in all probability, probability, The Fan
«All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cautious, hypothesis, obscurity, probability, supported, whatsoever
«From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| About:
Certainty,
Facts,
Principles,
Truth
| Keywords:
certainty, derived, in all probability, obtained, probability
«Life is a school of probability»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
probability, School of
«NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes --some of which have a large sale.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, altitude, bearing, category, composition, corresponds, distinctly, distinguishing, efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, essentials, First Impressions, fitted, impressions, in Russia, literal, Literary Art, literary composition, Long To, mount, novels, pad, padded, pads, pages, panorama, plot, probability, relation to, reporting, Russia, sale, short stories, short story, successive, successively, The Impressions, the novel, The short story, three parts, totality, wing
«Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Romance
| Keywords:
allegiance, at will, fiction writer, owes, probability, ranges, region, region of, tether, tethered, tethers, The God, the novel
«A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
in all probability, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, pound, probability
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