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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
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
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
— Niklas Luhmann
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
— Madame De Stael
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
— Joseph J. Ellis
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
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then 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
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
It is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?
— 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
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
I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
— Padgett Powell
The ship did. All by itself." "Huh?" "While we were in Improbability Drive." "But that's incredible." "No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.
— Douglas Adams
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
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It's the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.
— Kim Harrison
When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.
— Heather Graham
Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
— Daniel Berrigan
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
— Patrick O'Brian
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.
— Aristotle.
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
— Hans Jonas
The occurrence of a highly improbable event is the equivalent of the nonoccurrence of a highly probable one
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
— Aristotle.
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
— Philip Kerr
I am always will be- the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes. The dreamer of improbable dreams.
— The Doctor
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
— E.T.A. Hoffmann
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
— Aleister Crowley
Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible. The
— Douglas Axe
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
Improbable is not the same as impossible.
— Shelley Workinger
I THE IDEA OF TRUST The Improbable Power of Culture in the Making of Economic Society
— Francis Fukuyama
It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.
— Charles Bolden
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
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
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
— H.L. Mencken
Love was insanity at its most beautiful - a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible.
— A Meredith Walters
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
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
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
The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.
— Peter Grimwade
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
— William Arthur Ward
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
Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable - more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.
— Judith Hooper
The Improbable Is Not Impossible
— Anonymous
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
— George Pierce Baker
Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.
— Marvin Ammori
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
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.
— Elizabeth Warren
