The theory of probabilities is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable.
概率论是唯一可用的数学工具，用于帮助映射未知和不可控的事物。
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value.
What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.
我们所知道的很少，而我们不知道的却是无限的。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
The universe is a machine for the production of gods.
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value.
是印度给了我们表达所有数字的巧妙方法，每个符号都有一个位置值和一个绝对值。
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
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