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Improbable Quotes

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At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
George P. Baker

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle

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

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
Johannes P. Muller

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E. T. A. Hoffmann

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
George Ade

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Stephen Jay Gould

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

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

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