Quotes of: Plausible Keyword

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

Arthur Golden

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

Jaron Lanier

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Tom Stoppard

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

Stanley Schmidt

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Joey Skaggs

Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested. Intelligent design suffers from exactly the same objection as chance. It is simply not a plausib...

The God Delusion

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

The Time Machine

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

Sam Harris

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Seth Lloyd

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?

Tim Horvath

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Rod Serling

It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

Noam Chomsky

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Ralph Merkle

There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets w...

Daniel Kahneman

Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

George Will

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

Ben Marcus

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

Joey Skaggs

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

David Korten

All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

James Fenimore Cooper

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possibl...

Morris Raphael Cohen