“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
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat. — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.” — Douglas Adams 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
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“Your ability to talk seriously about improbable things tells a lot about you.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice?” — Tom Haikin 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
Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place… — Georgi Vladimov Copy Share Image
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
“I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“Well, I think," said Nobby, "that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you… — Richard Dawkins 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
Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone. — Charles Bolden Copy Share Image
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“no matter where you go there you are;" "all is possible and improbable are most;" "are you having a bizarre out-wig?” — Respectively High School Physics Teacher Husband's Twelve Year Old Grand Daughter Copy Share Image
My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do. — Craig L. Rice 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
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible. — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
