“When you exclude anything that is improbable, whatever is left, is not as hilarious.” — Oleg Medvedkov Copy Share Image
“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Your ability to talk seriously about improbable things tells a lot about you.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable. — Karl Ludwig von Knebel Copy Share Image
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious… — Richard Dawkins 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion…For that to happen in… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once…… — George Wald 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
“Life seemed improbable. All the turns of fate it had taken for Fern to be the mother of three particular children and… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
“anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“But that’s incredible.” “No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.” “Er, yeah.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image