Probable Quotes

203 quotes by 169 authors

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities… — China Mieville
Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our… — Sheldon Vanauken
She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it… — Rick Yancey
For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never… — Ann Patchett
I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one… — Christina Baker Kline
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for… — C.S. Lewis
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. — Anais Nin
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is… — Calvin Coolidge
I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done. — Carmelo Anthony
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds — Paul Valery
All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of… — William James
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and… — Soren Kierkegaard
Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable… — Sigmund Freud
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is… — George Wells Beadle
Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as… — Cherie Carter-Scott
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a… — Charles Darwin
Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable. — Irwin Redlener
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. — P.J. O'Rourke
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer… — Seth Shostak

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