#probability

"All statistics have outliers."

"Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . ."

"Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God."

"In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth."

"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably."

"I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them."