#probable

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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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

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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

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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality. ↗

— Lara St. John

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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. ↗

— Rod Sterling

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Kenneth Patchen

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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

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ↗

— Aristotle

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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

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