I've come across the following quotes in a book Probabilistic Graphical Models by Koller and Friedman.
- Albert Einstein
- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- John Muir
- When we try to pick anything by itself, we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe.
- James Clerk Maxwell
- The actual science of logic is conversant at present only with things either certain, impossible or entirely doubtful...Therefore the true logic for this world is the calculus of probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability which is, or ought to be, in a reasonable man's mind.
- Pierre Simon Laplace
- The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which ofttimes they are unable to account.
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.