Bruno de Finetti

“Probabilistic reasoning—always to be understood as subjective—merely stems from our being uncertain about something.”

“My thesis, paradoxically, and a little provocatively, but nonetheless genuinely, is simply this : {{pbr}}PROBABILITY DOES NOT EXIST.{{pbr}}The abandonment of superstitious beliefs about the existence of Phlogiston, the Cosmic Ether, Absolute Space and Time, ... , or Fairies and Witches, was an essential step along the road to scientific thinking. Probability, too, if regarded as something endowed with some kind of objective existence, is no less a misleading misconception, an illusory attempt to exteriorize or materialize our true probabilistic beliefs.”