Paul Dickson Quotes

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Miracles occur, or people die the next day.

In football, you never know what can happen.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

Maybe next time, but probably not.

Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.

Probability is the very guide of life.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

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.

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.