Probable Quotes

203 quotes by 169 authors

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible — Ally Condie
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if… — Jorge Luis Borges
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in… — Doris Lessing
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powersâ€¦ They would be able… — Alan Turing
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. — Baruch Spinoza
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are… — Fanny Burney
It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. — Olivier Messiaen
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much… — David Hilbert
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' — Aristotle
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is… — Norbert Wiener
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new… — August Strindberg
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it. — George Stoneman
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. — Marshall Ganz
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, — James F. Cooper
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate… — Primo Levi
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some… — David Brainerd

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