(20 quotes found)
“Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.”
William Arthur Ward
“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
“At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.”
“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 Sr.
“Within these breakwaters English is spoken; without / Is the immense, improbable atlas.”
W. H. Auden
“Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.”
Ronald Fisher
“It's inherently improbable that anybody -- anybody -- would choose the moment to say, 'Why don't I molest this child,'”
Robert Sanger
“Everything a commission might do has already been done before. Therefore, it is highly improbable that it could discover or propose anything not already discussed at length in public. And it could serve only to further impede this long overdue legislation.”
Barry Kauffman
“I understand that it might be upsetting to lose the election by a handful of votes, but it seems improbable that he can recover 20,000 votes.”
Vittorio Feltri
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