Barack Obama

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

American President

Arthur Conan Doyle

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

British Writer

Patrick O'Brian

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

English Novelist

Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Irish Poet

H. L. Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

American Writer

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

English Writer

Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Greek Philosopher

Carey Price

Be proud of your heritage, and don't be discouraged from the improbable.

Meryl Streep

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

American Actress

George Ade

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

American Playwright

Indicates the subject is possible but occurrences are rare or unexpected.

Degree of Unlikelihood

Varies in strength; 'highly improbable' is stronger than just 'improbable'.

Contextual Strength

Shows an objective assessment rather than a personal opinion.

Objective Judgment

 the question, "Why does the world exist?" that's the cosmic question, it sort of rhymes with a more intimate Why do I exist? Why do you exist? you know, our existence would seem to be amazingly improbable, because there's an enormous number of genetically possible humans, if you can compute it by looking at

Why does the universe...

 and they probably wouldn't have, were it not for that pesky asteroid. Now, make a thousand more worlds and a thousand more solar systems and let them run. You will never get the same result. No doubt, those worlds would be both amazing and amazingly improbable,

Hunting for dinosaurs...

 that human extinction would foreclose this immense potential. Some scenarios that have been envisaged may indeed be science fiction, but others may be disquietingly real. It's an important maxim that the unfamiliar is not the same as the improbable,

Martin Rees: Can we...

 that if you set out writing zeros at the time of the origin of the universe, you still would not have written enough zeros to this day. Evolution in Middle World has not equipped us to handle very improbable events; we don't live long enough.

Why the universe seems...

 time her ex-boyfriend would show up at the most improbable times in the most improbable locations he was carrying an open laptop and over time Carol realized that he had planted a GPS tracking device on her car so she was calling me for help

How to fool a GPS - Todd...

 And we're really becoming very close to understanding the key steps that makes dead stuff come alive. And again, when you're thinking about how improbable this is, remember, five billion years ago, we were not here, and there was no life.

Lee Cronin: Making...

 So why do we keep calling David an underdog, and why do we keep referring to his victory as improbable? There's a second piece of this that's important. It's not just that we misunderstand David and his choice of weaponry.

The unheard story of...

 or to be realistic when they're imagining what they might do or or who they might become and instead let's foster an atmosphere where we're free to be highly improbable and wildly unrealistic in our goal-setting none of

Daydreaming: The bridge...

 lembo straight on the northern tip of Sulawesi this region has been a cent of the evolution of marine life it's scattered reefs and sandy seabed are a kaleidoscope of improbable shapes and colors

Sea Animal Camouflage PIPE...

 with fur big ears and cloven hooves love comes in the door in many ways quite unexpectedly love came into our life late one chris june evening in the most improbable

Improbable