#improbable

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ↗

— Aristotle

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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

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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Richard Dawkins

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And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. ↗

— James Wolcott

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The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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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

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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. ↗

— George P. Baker

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