Amount Quote by Alex Garland

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

— Aristotle

And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen...

— Antal Szerb

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

— Gavin Extence

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as…

— China Mieville

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

— Philip Morrison

It's impossible that the improbable will never happen.

— Emil Julius Gumbel

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

— Max Tegmark

The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state…

— Emile Borel

“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined…

— Richard Dawkins

The probable is what usually happens.

— Aristotle

“We're not taking odds on it,” said Ender. “Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.”

— Orson Scott Card

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as…

— Ludwig Buchner