Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice… — Richard Dawkins 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
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle 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
It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a… — Allan Bloom 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
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
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable… — Jonathan Littell 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
Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not… — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift… — Paul Raskin Copy Share Image
“When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.” — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution. — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know why it should seem strange that Darius fancied someone, but even as little as she knew him, it already… — Michelle Zink Copy Share Image
One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way. — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
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