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
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
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas 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
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
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. — Oscar Wilde 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
For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise -… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“If there's—one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know why it should seem strange that Darius fancied someone, but even as little as she knew him, it already… — Michelle Zink 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
Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead… — David Hayden 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
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw 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
I was a vegetarian for a really long time, from 7 to 23, so I feel like some things aren't that weird… — Zoe Kazan 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
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
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
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
“What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ ”… — Douglas Adams 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
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
Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image