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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. -- Jerry Pournelle
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. -- Richard Dawkins
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. -- Ronald Fisher
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. -- Flea
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. -- Lewis Thomas
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. -- Ronald Fisher
It's the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance. -- William Lane Craig
The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist. -- Richard Dawkins
I had a dream about you last night... I was a brick and you were a blanket. Damn that improbability drive. -- Nicole McKay
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. -- Graham Greene
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. -- Milan Kundera
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. -- William Poundstone
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
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. -- Richard Dawkins

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