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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.
Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"
People would say it's very improbable that I'd make it to this point in my life. I made it here because I wasn't discouraged. I worked hard to get here, took advantage of every opportunity that I had.
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.
Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.
For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.
The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.
My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.
It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.
The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary.
...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.
It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
Never let someone tell you that you or your dreams are impossible, improbable, or not ‘good enough’ for their liking, especially when they have no experience or knowledge of your true heart and powers.
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word God.
In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.
Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.
Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
