"It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility."

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Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 64), 2006.

Dennis Lindley

#Zero Quotes #Logical Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.”

Source : Glenn L. Pace (1995). “Spiritual Plateaus”
“To worship is to remember Who owns the house.”
“Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.”

Source : Dorie Greenspan (2014). “Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have not created any characters nor have I changed my name. The last time I did, the band turned 20, and I said, "I'm going to stop changing my names. I'll present myself as RubÃ©n AlbarrÃ¡n." During that time, I was visiting certain communities and one of them baptized me with my birth name. So I said, "OK, I've received it, now I will use it," and I have. If another one comes, then it will come, but it hasn't arrived yet and I'm fine for now.”
“It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.”
“Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.”

Source : Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.84, New World Library
“Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'.”
“Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.”

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