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- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins
- The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious… — Richard Dawkins
- It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on… — Charles Lyell
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
- Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to… — John Playfair
- Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians… — Thomas Boswell
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply… — H. L. Mencken
- As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that… — Abraham Maslow