Richard Dawkins Quotes

A thousand probabilities don't make one fact.

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.

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

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

Highly unlikely but not impossible.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

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.

I can't predict the future.

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

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

Guessing isn't knowing.

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?" "Because they're real." "How do you know?" "The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.