Improbable Quotes

156 quotes by 121 authors

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work,… — Christiaan Huygens
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is… — George Wald
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which… — Ronald Fisher
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue… — Linda Hunt
It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of… — Johannes Peter Muller
Donâ€™t ever give up. Donâ€™t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as… — Evanna Lynch
We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them… — Charles Lindbergh
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple… — Galileo Galilei
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are… — Al Gore
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. — Stephen Jay Gould
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — Richard Dawkins
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African… — Barack Obama
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. — Christopher Reeve
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. — Oscar Wilde
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. — Oscar Wilde
And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators,… — James Wolcott
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded… — Joseph Conrad

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