Top 241 Improbable Quotes & Sayings

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

. . .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.

Nothing is Improbable until it moves into the Past Tense.

People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.

Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.

One should always be a little improbable.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.

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

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable...you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.

You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to explain the designer, who must be, if anything, an even more statistically improbable and elegant thing.

It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as a kind of capital structure, corresponding to information as an income flow. Knowledge, that is to say, is some kind of improbable structure or stock made up essentially of patterns - that is, improbable arrangements, and the more improbable the arrangements, we might suppose, the more knowledge there is.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

We are a people of improbable hope.

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

Improbable things happen a lot...

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

It's impossible that the improbable will never happen.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

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

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

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

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

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.

This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.

Be proud of your heritage, and don't be discouraged from the improbable.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

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

We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely.

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

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747

Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

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

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.