Improbable Quotes

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

— Niklas Luhmann

“Peace imposible, war improbable.”

— Rayman Aron

“The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,”

— Brad Stone

“Communication is improbable.”

— Niklas Luhmann

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

— Raymond Aron

Improbable things happen a lot...

— Jordan Ellenberg

“It's easier to accept the impossible then the improbable”

— Melissa Jensen

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

— Sean Connery

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”

— Douglas Adams

“But that’s incredible.” “No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.” “Er, yeah.”

— Douglas Adams

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

— Aristotle

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

— Thomas Schelling

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

— Meryl Streep

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

— James Whistler

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

— Oscar Wilde

It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy. She was from the city. She had the world at her feet,…

— The Notebook

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

“Well, I think," said Nobby, "that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for…

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and…

— Kary Mullis

“I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly…

— Isaiah Berlin

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is…

— Vilem Flusser

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never…

— Alfred Hitchcock

The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence…

— William Poundstone

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…

— H. L. Mencken

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with…

— Douglas Adams

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a…

— Ronald Fisher

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…

— Michael Leunig

Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce…

— Emile M. Cioran

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the…

— Daniel Fried

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part…

— Christiaan Huygens

“Life seemed improbable. All the turns of fate it had taken for Fern to be the mother of three particular children and…

— Ramona Ausubel

A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each…

— Ray Bradbury

Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine…

— Annalee Newitz

People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform…

— Brandon Sanderson

“What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ ”…

— Douglas Adams

Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway…

— Stephen Jay Gould

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we…

— Bertrand Russell

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