I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone. — Charles Bolden 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
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
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do. — Craig L. Rice Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before… — Emile M. Cioran 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
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
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed. — Aleister Crowley 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
Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. — Al Gore 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 is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E. T. A. Hoffmann 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
...(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
Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Are we expected to live in a world where we can no longer send death threats to colleagues via email? Where we… — Ian O'Doherty 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
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — George Miller Sternberg Copy Share Image
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it… — Soren Kierkegaard 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