Improbable Events Quotes

Several highly improbable and therefore unforeseen failures.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

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

You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to explain the designer, who must be, if anything, an even more statistically improbable and elegant thing.

Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible.

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dragon!" "And Morzan's son," he said. "Both of Morzan's sons." "Describe it how you will, it was such an improbable rescue, I occasionally think that I did go mad and that I've imagined everything since.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.