Improbable Quotes

It's impossible that the improbable will never happen.

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

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

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.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

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.

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.

...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

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.

Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.

The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

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

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

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.

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

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.

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.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

Improbable things happen a lot...

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

We are a people of improbable hope.

Nothing is impossible no matter how improbable, all things can be done before the rising sun!

Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.

Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.

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.

With God, the word ‘impossible’ is itself impossible.

With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.