Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

David Hockney

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Alan Kay

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Arthur Eddington

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Alan Shearer

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

Charlotte Bronte

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Claire Messud

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Amy Poehler

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

Ann Brashares

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

Albert Einstein

There is possibility in every difficulty.

Anne Rice

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

Dag Hammarskjold

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

Cornel West

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.