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“Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.”

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Author:Stephen Schneider

“Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.”

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Author:Jack Vance

“We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.”

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Author:Agnes Meyer Driscoll

“In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.”

“We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.”

Deals Absolutes Probability

Author:Seth Klarman

“The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.”

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Book:Foundation Trilogy

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.”

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Author:Albert Ellis