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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,… — Laurence Sterne
- The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can… — Lewis Thomas
- 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