Probable Quotes

203 quotes by 169 authors

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
Reality is not always probable, or likely. — Jorge Luis Borges
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian… — Bertrand Russell
Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had… — C.S. Lewis
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the… — Benjamin Franklin
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready… — Carl von Clausewitz
Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment. — Charley Pride
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are… — Charles Darwin
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but… — Karl Popper
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and… — Isaac Newton
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa… — Bertrand Russell
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as… — Wilhelm Wundt
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded… — Frederick The Great
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature… — Francis Bacon
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Richard Dawkins
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It… — Arthur David Ritchie

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