Émile Borel Quote

Events with a sufficiently small probability never occur, or at least we must act, in all circumstances, as if they were impossible.


Translated by Maurice Baudin, Probabilities and Life, Introduction (pp. 2-3), Dover Publications. 1962


Events with a sufficiently small probability never occur, or at least we must act, in all circumstances, as if they were impossible.

Events with a sufficiently small probability never occur, or at least we must act, in all circumstances, as if they were impossible.

Events with a sufficiently small probability never occur, or at least we must act, in all circumstances, as if they were impossible.

Events with a sufficiently small probability never occur, or at least we must act, in all circumstances, as if they were impossible.