Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable…

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

— Thomas Malthus

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“We don’t know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who’s kidding whom?”

— Jeanette Winterson

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is…

— Bill Porter

In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too…

— Elliott Abrams

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know…

— Bertrand Russell

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

— Leigh Bardugo

Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal…

— Annalee Newitz

People would say it's very improbable that I'd make it to this point in my life. I made it here because I wasn't discouraged.…

— Carey Price

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary…

— Michael Leunig

Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.

— Anonymous

“Life seemed improbable. All the turns of fate it had taken for Fern to be the mother of three particular children and the wife…

— Ramona Ausubel

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

— Richard Dawkins

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years…

— Ilya Prigogine