Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat. — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too… — Walter Abish Copy Share Image
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you… — Gary Holder-Winfield Copy Share Image
Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity.… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image