"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."

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Source : Collected Logical Works Volume II An Investigation of the Law of Thought Chapter XVI (p. 258)

George Boole

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“André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.”
“The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”
“I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete.”
“The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.”
“I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.”
“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2011). “Going to the Territory”, p.66, Vintage
“It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.”
“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

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