William Cecil Dampier Quote

Sometimes the probability in favor of a generalization is enormous, but the infinite probability of certainty is never reached.


Science and the Human Mind - Chapter X, Longmans, Green & Company. 1912


Sometimes the probability in favor of a generalization is enormous, but the infinite probability of certainty is never reached.

Sometimes the probability in favor of a generalization is enormous, but the infinite probability of certainty is never reached.

Sometimes the probability in favor of a generalization is enormous, but the infinite probability of certainty is never reached.

Sometimes the probability in favor of a generalization is enormous, but the infinite probability of certainty is never reached.