Quotes About Improbability

Hope is not mere optimism; rather, it is moving forward in anticipation of redemption in spite of the improbability of rescue.

That is the thing about infinity: it takes things that are otherwise very unlikely and makes them all inevitable.

Anything is possible," I said. "But most things are unlikely.

Anything is possible but most things are unlikely.

Let no man or woman call its events improbable. The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Does the occurrence of one impossible thing increase the likelihood of a second.

Dopotutto sarebbe stato improbabile che mio padre ci permettesse di stare soli insieme, il suo stupido figlio e la sua stupida moglie.

Maximum improbability equals maximum possibility.

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Therefore, mathematically...there was no chance at all that [she] could have existed. A zero in ten-to-the-power-of-forever chance. And yet there she was, in front of me, and I was quite taken aback by it all; I really was. Suddenly it made me realise why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

You may as well expect pears from an elm.

This world is full of the most outrageous nonsense. Sometimes things happen which you would hardly think possible.