Quotes About Unlikelihood

Two to the power of twenty thousand to one against and falling.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Pigs might fly, but they're unlikely birds.

Each of us is a cosmic improbability, brought into this life and sentenced to experience it

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?

It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at the precise right moment, you'd think it would never happen.

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Highly unlikely but not impossible.

My being here is a consequential low-probability occurrence, and I tend to forget it.

Drogo is obsessed and blinded by the possibility of an unlikely event;

You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

She was not so swept away that she could not see the high comedy of this spiritual seduction: a Litvinoff daughter, a third-generation atheist, an enemy of all forms of magical thinking, wandering into synagogue one day and finding her inner Jew. But there it was. Something had happened to her, something she could not ignore or deny. And there was a sense in which its unlikelihood, its horrible inconvenience, was precisely what made it so compelling.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.