#probable

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #foundations #improbable #lies #proof

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#hard #holds #just #like #past

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#conscious #earn #either #enjoying #i

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost. ↗

— Julien Benda

#arts #been #discovered #doubtful #lost

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#heart #improbable #matters #nothing #true

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#cause #criminal #does #give #independently

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

— Meryl Streep

#improbable #like #space #suspended #things

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. ↗

— Frances Burney

#behaviour #cannot #characters #history #i

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

#improbable #respect