Improbability Quotes

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

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

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country.

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.