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title: "10 Highly Improbable Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [“Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-haikin/whenever-i-hear-someone-make-a-highly-improbable-assumption-i-always/)

[Tom Haikin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-haikin/)

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> [It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bolden/it-s-highly-improbable-in-the-limitless-vastness-of-the-universe-that/)

[Charles Bolden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bolden/)

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> [“The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-stone/the-black-swan-the-impact-of-the-highly-improbable/)

[Brad Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-stone/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/brad-stone-2853_black-swan_the-black-swan-the-impact-of-the-highly_2155857.jpg)

> [The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-sachar/the-impossible-is-more-believable-than-the-highly-improbable/)

[Louis Sachar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-sachar/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/louis-sachar-4066_impossible_the-impossible-is-more-believable-than-t_1084934.jpg)

> [The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-prigogine/the-idea-of-spontaneous-generation-of-life-in-its-present-form-is/)

[Ilya Prigogine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-prigogine/)

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> [“I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaiah-berlin/i-have-said-that-one-of-the-distinguishing-characteristics-of-a-great/)

[Isaiah Berlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaiah-berlin/)

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> [One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-sloan/one-can-t-logically-argue-that-because-something-highly-improbable/)

[Gary Sloan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-sloan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/043/gary-sloan-51438_arguing_one-can-t-logically-argue-that-because-s_3181523.png)

> [It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eduardo-galeano/it-is-highly-improbable-that-the-bureaucrat-will-put-his-life-on-the/)

[Eduardo Galeano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eduardo-galeano/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdd/eduardo-galeano-1015_bureaucracy_it-is-highly-improbable-that-the-bureauc_1504414.png)

> [“The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-capacity-of-humans-to-believe-in-what-seems-to-me-highly/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/194/robert-a-heinlein-209_improbable_the-capacity-of-humans-to-believe-in-wha_2505164.jpg)

> [It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-fisher/it-was-darwin-s-chief-contribution-not-only-to-biology-but-to-the/)

[Ronald Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-fisher/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/848/ronald-fisher-14852_biology_it-was-darwin-s-chief-contribution-not-o_968711.jpg)

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