Improbable Quote by Thomas Schelling Download Open image “There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.” — Thomas Schelling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Improbable Inspirational Love Planning Tendencies Unfamiliar
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate… — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities. — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing… — Gary Holder-Winfield Copy Share Image
“Nothing is impossible no matter how improbable, all things can be done before the rising sun!” — Misti Renea Neely Copy Share Image
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible. — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
