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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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Aristotle
Greek - Philosopher
384 BC - 322 BC

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

Aristotle

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

George Pierce Baker

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Aristotle

[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.

George Wald

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Rod Serling

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Aristotle

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

Hans Jonas

When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

Smith Wigglesworth

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Gilles Deleuze

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

C. S. Lewis

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

Tori Spelling

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

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 to us as observers - and one comes true.

China Mieville

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