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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
— Rod Sterling
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When you exclude anything that is improbable, whatever is left, is not as hilarious.
— Oleg Medvedkov
With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
— Kenneth Patchen
It seemed absurd even to think of it, foolish and improbable as a dream is by dinner.
— Madeline Miller
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
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
— Niklas Luhmann
Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.
— Karl Ludwig Von Knebel
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
— Joseph J. Ellis
When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.
— Leigh Bardugo
Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.
— Miriam Allen De Ford
I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.
— Donnie Eichar
starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It
— Arthur Conan Doyle
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
— Christopher Reeve
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign?
— David Mitchell
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.
— James Surowiecki
It is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
- All things that endure for a long time are little by little so greatly permeated by reason that their origin in unreason becomes improbable. Does
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
— Jennifer Armintrout
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
— Oscar Wilde
A cormorant broke the surface, like an improbable idea tearing the membrane between dreams and life.
— Peter Carey
Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.
— Fredrik Backman
Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice?
— Tom Haikin
If you couldn't handle someone who did the impossible, the improbable, the implausible, then you couldn't handle the VRMMO player known as Kirito.
— Reki Kawahara
Harry spends his days in saying what is incredible, and his evenings in doing what is improbable. Just the sort of life I would like to lead.
— Oscar Wilde
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
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
— Daniel Berrigan
It seemed so improbable. But so did everything else that I really paid attention to.
— Carrie Saxifrage
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
— Erich Maria Remarque
And I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses. Of course, I had hoped that Peter
— John Green
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
— Patrick O'Brian
The Improbable Is Not Impossible
— Anonymous
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
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
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
— Hans Jonas
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
— Stephen Jay Gould
It's impossible that the improbable will never happen.
— Emil Julius Gumbel
Communication is improbable.
— Niklas Luhmann
(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.
— Thomas Tredgold
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
Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
A proposition is in itself neither probable nor improbable. An event occurs or does not occur, there is no middle course
— Anonymous
When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.
— Heather Graham
Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.
— Sean Connery
It's the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.
— Kim Harrison
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.
— Aristotle.
It's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
— Craig L. Rice
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
— H.L. Mencken
It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.
— Charles Bolden
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
— Algernon Blackwood
I suppose all our lives must be at the end of a long chain of improbable coincidences,
— Bill Bryson
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.
— Thomas Schelling
Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
— Raymond Aron
Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
You'd be surprised what people will believe. Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it.
— John Flanagan
We were very much in love - the wild, mysterious, improbable kind of love that never comes but once.
— Raymond Chandler
Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.
— Jeffrey Fry
I THE IDEA OF TRUST The Improbable Power of Culture in the Making of Economic Society
— Francis Fukuyama
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
— Calvin Trillin
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.
— Tessa Jowell
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 catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
— Al Gore
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
— Richard Dawkins
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
— Mason Cooley
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
— George Pierce Baker
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
— William Arthur Ward
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
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
— William Shakespeare
Great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.
— Brandon Sanderson
With God, the word 'impossible' is itself impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Peace imposible,war improbable.
— Raymond Aron
Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable - more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.
— Judith Hooper
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
— 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
The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.
— Peter Grimwade
Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.
— Marvin Ammori
Some things can come to pass, he reminded himself. Some things are improbable, and some are impossible.
— Ilona Andrews
I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
— Richard Dawkins
Once you have discovered the physical facts of a situation, all that remains - no matter how improbable - is more interesting.
— Tod Foley
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.
— Elizabeth Warren