There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But that’s incredible.” “No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.” “Er, yeah.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too… — Walter Abish Copy Share Image
“The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children-… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Well, I think," said Nobby, "that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy. She was from the city. She had the world at her feet,… — The Notebook Copy Share Image
People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Life seemed improbable. All the turns of fate it had taken for Fern to be the mother of three particular children and… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Are we expected to live in a world where we can no longer send death threats to colleagues via email? Where we… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer,… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity.… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image