Definition of Improbable

Improbable

Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event.

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Improbable Quotations

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

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle

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.
Barack Obama

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

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins

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

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

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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?
Arthur Conan Doyle

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
George Ade

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de Stael

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Stephen Jay Gould

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
Johannes P. Muller

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
George P. Baker

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Improbable Translations

improbable in French is improbable
improbable in German is unwahrscheinlich
improbable in Norwegian is usannsynlig
improbable in Spanish is inverosimil, improbable
improbable in Swedish is osannolik

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