Famous quotes containing the words bit, error and/or probability:
“The ordinary manwe have to face it: it is every bit as true of the ordinary Englishman as of the ordinary Americanis an Anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesnt want to be governed.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.”
—Andrew Michael Ramsay (16861743)