“Be improbable beautiful. Live your life with passion and purpose.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.” — Joseph Hansen 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
Once you've eliminated the possible, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the answer. — Sherlock Holmes Copy Share Image
It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy. She was from the city. She had the world at her feet,… — The Notebook Copy Share Image
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never… — Alfred Hitchcock 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
“If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end… — Peter Hoeg 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
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To love someone is to always see them as the miracle that they are; as the miracle that they exist, the miracle… — Philip K. Jason 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
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
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
A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“All greatness is improbable. What’s probable is tedious and petty.”24” — Shawn MacKenzie Copy Share Image
It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that… — Elliott Abrams 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 idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
People would say it's very improbable that I'd make it to this point in my life. I made it here because I… — Carey Price 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
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
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable. — Thomas Tredgold Copy Share Image
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