Once you've eliminated the possible, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the answer. — Sherlock Holmes 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
Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude.… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is… — Vilem Flusser 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
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
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling 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
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable. — James Surowiecki 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 real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by… — Terry Pratchett 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
It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling 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
Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis. — Judith Hooper Copy Share Image
