The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by… — Michael Leunig 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
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
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that… — Elliott Abrams 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
“Nothing is impossible no matter how improbable, all things can be done before the rising sun!” — Misti Renea Neely Copy Share Image
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible. — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift… — Paul Raskin Copy Share Image
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
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
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not… — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent… — Phyllis McGinley 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
Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image