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Improbable things happen a lot. -- Jordan Ellenberg
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. -- Emile M. Cioran
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. -- Richard Dawkins
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. -- George Ade
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. -- Aristotle
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. -- Meryl Streep
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. -- Christopher Reeve
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. -- Madame de Stael
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. -- Oscar Wilde
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. -- Douglas Adams
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. -- H. L. Mencken
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. -- Richard Dawkins
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. -- Oscar Wilde
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? -- Arthur Conan Doyle
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. -- Christopher Reeve
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. -- Galileo Galilei
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. -- Mario Cuomo
Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you. -- Elizabeth Warren
Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable. -- Chris Carter
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. -- Barack Obama
It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence. -- Leonard Susskind
And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. -- James Wolcott
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. -- Al Gore
Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable. -- Sean Connery
Peace is impossible, war is improbable. -- Raymond Aron
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real. -- Mason Cooley
One should always be a little improbable. -- Oscar Wilde
We are a people of improbable hope. -- Barack Obama
It's impossible that the improbable will never happen. -- Emil Julius Gumbel
When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable. -- Leigh Bardugo
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. -- Oscar Wilde
Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible. -- Elon Musk
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence. -- Niklas Luhmann
The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable. -- Louis Sachar
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. -- George Pierce Baker
Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. -- Miriam Allen de Ford
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. -- George Pierce Baker
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable. -- Joseph J. Ellis
In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable. -- Horatio Nelson
It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds -- H.Q. Frost
Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage! -- Madeline Kahn
Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you. -- Aldous Huxley
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened. -- Vin Scully
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. -- Aristotle
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable. -- Karl Ludwig von Knebel
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. -- Rod Serling
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. -- C. S. Lewis
It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls. -- Voltaire
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. -- Rod Serling
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible -- William Arthur Ward
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. -- Thomas Schelling
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. -- Kenneth Patchen
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed. -- Thomas Browne
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it. -- Elizabeth Warren
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do. -- Craig L. Rice
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. -- Stephen Jay Gould
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone. -- Charles Bolden
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable. -- Aristotle
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. -- Ada Leverson
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed. -- Aleister Crowley
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. -- Daniel Berrigan
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With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. -- Aristotle
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. -- Al Gore
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable. -- Arthur Brisbane
The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat. -- Peter Grimwade
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. -- Hans Jonas
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams. -- Matt Smith
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible. -- Tessa Jowell
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns. -- Algernon Blackwood
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We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed. -- Richard Dawkins
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. -- Aristotle
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. -- Calvin Trillin
One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way. -- Gary Sloan
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. -- Richard Dawkins
Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat. -- Jennifer Armintrout
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat. -- Jennifer Armintrout
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable. -- James Surowiecki
...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable. -- Thomas Tredgold
Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed. -- John Mark Green
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. -- Richard Dawkins
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. -- Ray Bradbury
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes ... -- Kary Mullis
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. -- Walter Abish
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
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. -- Cormac McCarthy
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. -- Jonathan Littell
All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable. -- Johnny Rich
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. -- Craig Stone
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line. -- Eduardo Galeano
Dreams are what life is made of and although most things are improbable, nothing is impossible. Be the dreamer of the impossible and you can see probability. -- Peace Gypsy
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. -- Agatha Christie
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. -- Douglas Adams
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it. -- Aristotle
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. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Ilya Prigogine
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
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. -- Richard Dawkins
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 -- Richard Dawkins
The thing about fathers is that they are human. But, they stay bent on being heroes to their children, readily willing to give themselves up to effect improbable rescues. -- Srini Chandra
The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama. -- Rashers Tierney
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. -- Johannes Peter Muller
It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible. -- D.E. Navarro
The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe. -- Norman Geisler
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers. -- Luke Salisbury
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
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. -- Og Mandino
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. -- Gene Wolfe
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings. -- Mary Oliver

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