#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

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. ↗

— Edward Grey

#contingency #country #critical #decide #doubtful

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration. ↗

— Mario Monti

#bound #breakup #decisions #deeper #europe

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

#aspire #beings #felt #genuinely #human

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

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

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. ↗