On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be…

“Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the…

— Daniel Abraham

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the…

— Hannah Arendt

There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the…

— Walter Kaufmann

“Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“But our relationship to these infinite pasts and futures isn’t random—plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that Dr. Oda…

— Neal Stephenson

“ I would like to focus on the use of the word silly for a particular people’s point of views. Everybody has what is…

— Randal Rauser

“Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.”

— Peter Davis

The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of…

— Donald E. Westlake

“Love covers a myriad of plausibility structures.”

— Carol Plum-Ucci

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

— Anonymous

In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some semblance of…

— Rafe Spall

My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient,…

— Thomas Gilovich

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

— Mark Lawson

“He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.”

— Arthur C. Clarke