That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable. — Aristotle 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
“All greatness is improbable. What’s probable is tedious and petty.”24” — Shawn MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Once you've eliminated the possible, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the answer. — Sherlock Holmes Copy Share Image
“When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.” — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a… — Fabrizio Moreira 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
“Mr. False! No, don't start grabbing the chickens! Better off farmer with no chickens than a load of chickens with no farmer!… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“As Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the… — Guity Novin 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
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
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 thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent… — Phyllis McGinley 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
Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
“Approaching the forest from the west was no army, but a delegation of Grailsundanian master surgeons on their way to an appendix… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with… — John Gresham Machen 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
“What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ ”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
