“I had a dream about you last night... I was a brick and you were a blanket. Damn that improbability drive.” — Nicole McKay Copy Share Image
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. — Flea Copy Share Image
The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Absolute does not deny improbability, it fails to acknowledge its existence.” — Christopher Bishoy Ayoub Copy Share Image
We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“In the sheer, shimmering improbability of the moment, it seemed to Lazlo that his dream had tired of waiting and had simply…… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“The reason is simply the extreme improbability of the preadaptations necessary for it to occur at all. Each of these evolutionary steps… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“the decision to move forward—despite the sheer improbability of success—was not an elective one; it was a matter of necessity.” — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The 7 Principles for Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desires 1. You are a ripple in the fabric of the cosmos 2. Through the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In a 2011 TED Talk in San Francisco, author and speaker Mel Robbins talked about how the chances that you are you… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance. — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
One day my heart and soul will realize the impossible improbability my mind already knows.. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“For random events to produce even a single protein would seem a stunning improbability—like a whirlwind spinning through a junkyard and leaving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“REVISITING THE LIST 1. Kiss Estelle Okay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. And that's withought her knowing… — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I was about 12 or 13 years old. I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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