Daniel Deronda (1876)
“The science of probability gives mathematical expression to our ignorance, not to our wisdom.”
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (1968)
Context: If everything, everything were known, statistical estimates would be unnecessary. The science of probability gives mathematical expression to our ignorance, not to our wisdom.
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), pg. 217
1900s
Preface to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (London: George Allen, 1894) p. ix
“Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.”
Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 14, Equipossibility, p. 132.
Quels que soient les progrès des connaissances humaines, il y aura toujours place pour l'ignorance et par suite pour le hasard et la probabilité.
[Emile Borel, Le hasard, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1914, 12-13]
Cited in: Michael Armstrong, Tina Stephens (2005) A Handbook Of Management And Leadership. p. 71
The Naked Manager (1972)
Philip Kotler (1999), as cited in: Dennis Adcock, Al Halborg, Caroline Ross (2001), Marketing: Principles and Practice. p. 208
Walter Legge, who was invited to Mysore by the Maharaja. Quoted in "Medtner, Music & a Maharaja"
Source: Religion and the Rebel (1957), p. 309
Context: One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.
