Improbable Quotes

Improbable Quote of the day

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

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

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.

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

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

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

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

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

Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

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.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

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

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

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.

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

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

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

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

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.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

. . .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.

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

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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

One should always be a little improbable.

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

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

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

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

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.

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

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.

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.