Improbability Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
— Jerry Pournelle
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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
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It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
— William Lane Craig
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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
— Ronald Fisher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
— Richard Dawkins
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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
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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
— Graham Greene
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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
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For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
— Milan Kundera
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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
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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
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One day my heart and soul will realize the impossible improbability my mind already knows..
— Melchor Lim
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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: