Italian Proverb Quotes

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

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.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

What seems most likely is generally true.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

I can't predict the future.

I owe it to myself and to historic truth to declare that some circumstances … are founded only in conjecture and analogy.

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Guessing isn't knowing.

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

The future is inherently uncertain.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

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.

I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.

You cannot guess what happens in the future.

Nobody knows the future.