Improbability Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. — Jerry Pournelle
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
Itâ€™s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance. — William Lane Craig
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald Fisher
There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between… — Otto Weininger
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in… — Peter Medawar
The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective… — Carl Jung
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field… — Wendell Berry
That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on… — Charles Scott Sherrington
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances,… — Laurence Sterne
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of… — Lewis Thomas
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. — Graham Greene
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of… — Alan Moore
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. — Milan Kundera
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never… — Yann Martel
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our… — Robert Ardrey
One day my heart and soul will realize the impossible improbability my mind already knows.. — Melchor Lim
I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that… — John Sevier

Who Wrote These Improbability Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 19 Improbability Quotes as follows: