I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I… — Linda Hunt 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
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults… — Gene Wolfe 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
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 see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity.… — Robert Grudin 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
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too… — Walter Abish 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
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
It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most… — Leonard Susskind 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
