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Improbability Quotes (page 3)

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
Stephen Jay Gould quote: "Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a..."
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. Stephen Jay Gould
Barack Obama quote: "We are a people of improbable hope."
We are a people of improbable hope. Barack Obama
Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observatio? the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true. F. Scott Fitzgerald
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites... Robert A. Heinlein
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth. Jean Rhys
David Sedaris quote: "If I could believe in myself, why not give other..."
If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt? David Sedaris
Oscar Wilde quote: "One should always be a little improbable."
One should always be a little improbable. Oscar Wilde
Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. C. S. Lewis
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear. Joseph Conrad
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
Oscar Wilde quote: "Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the..."
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde quote: "Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable."
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. Oscar Wilde
Graham Greene quote: "I have never understood why people who can swallow the..."
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. Graham Greene
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 P. Muller

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