--- title: "6 Likely Explanation Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 6 Likely Explanation quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Likely Explanation sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/robert-a-heinlein-209_cosmology_the-universe-was-a-damned-silly-place-at_617414.jpg" --- > [“The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-universe-was-a-damned-silly-place-at-best-but-the-least-likely/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/robert-a-heinlein-209_cosmology_the-universe-was-a-damned-silly-place-at_617414.jpg) > [Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-g-mcafee/christian-apologists-who-argue-that-a-story-about-an-empty-tomb-is/) [David G. McAfee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-g-mcafee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/david-g-mcafee-12205_arguing_christian-apologists-who-argue-that-a-st_1350596.jpg) > [The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-universe-was-a-silly-place-at-best-but-the-least-likely/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf8/robert-a-heinlein-209_abstract_the-universe-was-a-silly-place-at-best-b_1664275.jpg) > [“I had to get back to dealing with facts. One fact was that something bizarre was going on, but I'd be far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-duff/i-had-to-get-back-to-dealing-with-facts-one-fact-was-that-something/) [Hilary Duff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-duff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/hilary-duff-2018_books_i-had-to-get-back-to-dealing-with-facts_2262290.jpg) > [“The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-universe-was-a-damned-silly-place-at-best-but-the-least-likely-2/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/484/anonymous-1_explanation-random_the-universe-was-a-damned-silly-place-at_2366536.jpg) > [There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mead/there-are-unidentified-flying-objects-that-is-there-are-a-hard-core/) [Margaret Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mead/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/margaret-mead-982_activity_there-are-unidentified-flying-objects-th_2660227.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/likely-explanation/#itemlist", "name": "Likely Explanation Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that some abstract somethings \"just happened\" to be some atoms that \"just happened\" to get together in configurations which \"just happened\" to look like consistent laws and then some of these configurations \"just happened\" to possess self-awareness and that two such \"just happened\" to be the Man from Mars and the other a bald-headed old coot with Jubal himself inside. 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