--- title: "Best Improbability Quotes" description: "Browse 43 Improbability quotes by 35 authors. Discover the best Improbability sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0b/thomas-paine-267_articles_but-there-are-times-when-men-have-seriou_28495.jpg" --- > [But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/but-there-are-times-when-men-have-serious-thoughts-and-it-is-at-such/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0b/thomas-paine-267_articles_but-there-are-times-when-men-have-seriou_28495.jpg) > [I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-goodenough/i-have-come-to-understand-that-the-self-my-self-is-inherently-sacred/) [Ursula Goodenough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-goodenough/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15d/ursula-goodenough-28376_affection_i-have-come-to-understand-that-the-self_1404872.png) > [“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-collins/to-get-our-universe-with-all-of-its-potential-for-complexities-or-any/) [Francis Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-collins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd0/francis-collins-5281_anthropic-principle_to-get-our-universe-with-all-of-its-pote_1097854.png) ## Top authors on Improbability - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/improbability/richard-dawkins/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/improbability/#itemlist", "name": "Improbability Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. 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