Quotes About Probable

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

I think we have to consider every possibility. 'When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is probable, however, that to this fact I owe my life and the remarkable experiences and adventures which befell me during the following ten years.

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.

At least three studies, in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, have linked glyphosate exposure to the disease, and in 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer found glyphosate to be a 'probable' cause of cancer in humans. California's state environmental protection agency has also declared it a probable carcinogen.

regarding speculative matters that are of no practical moment, and followed by no consequences to himself, farther, perhaps, than that they foster his vanity the better the more remote they are from common sense; requiring, as they must in this case, the exercise of greater ingenuity and art to render them probable.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

God neither created us nor wished us to be created, but that we are the work of an inferior deity, a Demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God? Heavens, how probable it seems; and this overweening hubris has been handed on down to our children.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

We said that with initial LIGO, detections would be possible, and with Advanced LIGO, detections would be probable.

Rule of law is based on probable cause.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.