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
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“But that’s incredible.” “No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.” “Er, yeah.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
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
“When the impossible is eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the solution ... unless you're mistaken as to just what is and… — Thomas W. Knowles Copy Share Image
Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when… — Brendon Burchard 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
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
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
Are we expected to live in a world where we can no longer send death threats to colleagues via email? Where we… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
“Life seemed improbable. All the turns of fate it had taken for Fern to be the mother of three particular children and… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken 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
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence… — Abraham Lincoln 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
The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer,… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — George Miller Sternberg Copy Share Image
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image