Quotes About Improbability

you have enough monkeys randomly striking keyboard keys (they have recently traded in their typewriters for PCs), one of them will eventually type Hamlet

When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

We all lead double lives. It's a privilege for the artist and a curse for the ordinary man. One has to get used to it. It's a terrible thing to know too much. In life, our words are improvisations and our actions careless mistakes that end up by becoming habits. Fate beign the distraction of the gods, I distract myself by evading questions that I never asked myself in the past. We are in the hands of the improbable, are we not, my dear Cosette? - Monsieur Verjat-

I am forty years old, and I have only just learned this fundamental truth myself. Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation. I am in love. There it is. I have written it down. Soon I will say it out loud. To him. I am in love. As crazy and ridiculous and implausible as it sounds, I am in love. And I am loved in return. And this --love-- gives me the courage I need for today.

Dream up something wild and improbable. Something beautiful and full of monsters. -Beautiful and full of monsters? -All the best stories are.

I want to do mysterious and improbable things alongside a fierce and beautiful girl who looks like a doll brought to life by a sorcerer.

In the sheer, shimmering improbability of the moment, it seemed to Lazlo that his dream had tired of waiting and had simply… come to find him. There

Dream up something wild and improbable.

I was told that there's near on a million to one chance that I would be able to have children.

Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability.

Alan Turing once whimsically proposed a number N, defined as "the odds against a piece of chalk leaping across the room and writing a line of Shakespeare on the board."?

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

When the impossible is eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the solution ... unless you're mistaken as to just what is and what isn't impossible.

Als Edward, der Earl of Warwick, tief schlafend in seinem dunklen Schlafzimmer lag, nahm er unterbewusst das Geräusch schwätzender Frauen wahr. Aber sein Unterbewusstsein versicherte ihm gleichzeitig, dass so etwas völlig unwahrscheinlich wäre.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

Once you have discovered the physical facts of a situation, all that remains - no matter how improbable - is more interesting.

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.

We very often express in a categorical form a judgment of which we do not feel assured, we even lay stress on its absolute validity. We want to see what opposition it will arouse, and this can be achieved only by stating our assumption not as a tentative suggestion, which no one will consider, but as an irrefutable, all-important truth. The greater the value of the assumption has for us, the more carefully do we conceal any suggestion of its improbability.