Lewis Thomas

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

American Scientist

Flea

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

Australian Musician

Ronald Fisher

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

English Mathematician

Jerry Pournelle

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

American Journalist

Richard Dawkins

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

English Scientist

Use 'improbability' to express skepticism or doubt about an event occurring.

Express Doubt

'Improbability' suggests something is very unlikely, but not completely impossible.

Not Impossible

It subtly conveys that while an event is unexpected, its occurrence would be acknowledged.

Nuanced Expectation

 We could make some sort of landmark points along a spectrum of improbability, which might look like the electromagnetic spectrum we just looked at. If life has arisen only once on any --