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God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?... If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

Blaise Pascal

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 229.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 229.

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One might perhaps say that this very thing is probable, that many things happen to men that are not probable.

Agathon

Quoted in Rhetoric, by Aristotle

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Agathon. Quoted in Ῥητορική [Rhetoric], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC.

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Agathon. Quoted in Rhetoric, written by Aristotle, translated by W. Rhys Roberts. Dover Publications, 2004.

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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

William Cowper

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Cowper, William. "Conversation." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782, I. 96.

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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington

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Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Directed by Adam McKay, Apatow Productions, 2004.

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But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. The chance had to be there.

Roald Dahl

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

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The theory of probabilities is at bottom only common sense reduced to calculus.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

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