Quotes on Improbable

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

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

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

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

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

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

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.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

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

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

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.