Quotes of: Improbable Keyword

It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.

Voltaire

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Richard Dawkins

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

George Pierce Baker

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Ronald Fisher

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Jerry Pournelle

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Douglas Adams

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

Skinflick

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Jennifer Armintrout

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.

Life

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Miriam Allen de Ford

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Galileo Galilei