Quotes About Improbable

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

The human memory is a salamander; it squiggles from point to point, slaloms its way improbably up walls and across ceilings.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

Respect the elders. Embrace the new. Encourage the impractical and improbable, without bias.

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.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

They remembered what John, His forerunner, had said of One among them whom they knew not, and who yet was far greater than himself; and they remarked that his statements, however improbable they might have appeared at the time, had been verified by events, and he himself proved to be a true prophet by Christ's miracles, if not by his own. "John," said they to each other, "did no miracle; but all things that John said of this man were true.

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

And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists, that the most gifted among us is feeble in mind against the brutality of incomprehensibility that assutalts us from all sides. And so we try, as best we cn, to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence. And so we live, as best we can, for ourselves, or who will live for us? And we live, as best we can, for others, otherwise what are we?

El llamado Principio Antrópico nos dice que nosotros nos hallamos en uno de los improbables universos en los que una mente consciente es posible, mientras que en el resto simplemente no hay nadie que pueda observar. De este modo, el motivo esencial de por qué nuestro universo, el universo en el que habitamos, es aparentemente especial es porque nosotros estamos aquí.

For a time, Karras watched him as he listed down the street; watched with fondness and with wonder at the heart's labyrinthine turnings and improbable redemptions.

We're talking about a tentacled flying lamp fucker, Dave. What are you prepared to call unlikely?

The future is what it is," said Largeman. "Your people have been poisoned with the myths of lone men turning the tide, improbable tales of heroes outrunning explosions with their feet. Such tales are forbidden here. Events are laid forth and they cannot be turned. There are no heroes, Mr. Wong.

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.

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

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.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big but--not impossible.

It's the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.

Generally doesn't sound very improbable. Doesn't sound very zenzizenzizenzic to one against. Sounds more like even money to me.

What care I if it be wild and improbable and lacking in literary art? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.