Implausible Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of… — Richard Lindzen
A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true. — Jimmy Carr
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed… — Jacob Bernoulli
It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible. — Elwyn Brooks White
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. — Rod Serling
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us… — Terence McKenna
All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for… — Michael Moritz
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas… — John Conyers
We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a… — Bill McKibben
Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible. — Ron Fournier
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. — Alan Watts
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source… — R. D. Laing
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted… — Meghan O'Rourke
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction — David Mitchell
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as… — Steven Pinker
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel. — Candice Millard
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes

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