Life seemed improbable. All the turns of fate it had taken…

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood…

— John Maynard Smith

“I would hold him in my arms and wait to cross the street and would think how absurd it was that my child, that…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“But that’s incredible.” “No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.” “Er, yeah.”

— Douglas Adams

I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing…

— Gary Holder-Winfield

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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