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Improbable Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about…
- The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance…
- However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God…
- Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's…
- We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that…
- Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
- Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
- We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
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- Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. — George Ade
- Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an… — C.S. Lewis
- 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
- I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable,… — Og Mandino
- 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
- Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — Peter Kreeft
- The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. — Stephen Jay Gould
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins