Émile Borel Quote

Can there be laws of chance? The answer, it would seem... should be negative, since chance is in fact defined as the characteristic of the phenomena which follow no law, phenomena whose causes are too complex to permit prediction.


Translated by Maurice Baudin - Probabilities and Life - Introduction (p. 1), Dover Publications. 1962


Can there be laws of chance? The answer, it would seem... should be negative, since chance is in fact defined as the characteristic of the phenomena...

Can there be laws of chance? The answer, it would seem... should be negative, since chance is in fact defined as the characteristic of the phenomena...

Can there be laws of chance? The answer, it would seem... should be negative, since chance is in fact defined as the characteristic of the phenomena...

Can there be laws of chance? The answer, it would seem... should be negative, since chance is in fact defined as the characteristic of the phenomena...