Famous quotes containing the words likelihood, ratio and/or test:
“What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”
—Elizabeth Drew (1887–1965)