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• 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… — Joseph Murray
• It’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… — Otto Weininger
• Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made… — Peter Medawar
• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena… — Carl Jung
• The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — Wendell Berry
• That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it… — 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,… — 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… — Lewis Thomas

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