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

Douglas Adams

Impossibility, Probability, Integrity, Philosophy, Perspective

2. “We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

Douglas Adams

Probability, Normality, Humor, Space Travel, Uncertainty

3. “The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”

Douglas Adams

Creativity, Probability, Perspective, Ideas, Critical Thinking

4. “Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hope, Desire, Perception, Probability, Human Emotion

5. “It is more than possible; it is probable.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Probability, Possibility, Logic, Deduction, Likelihood

6. “We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Probability, Science, Imagination, Deduction, Logical Reasoning

7. “It is likely that unlikely things should happen.”

Aristotle

Unlikely Events, Probability, Life Surprises, Possibility, Expectation

8. “With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”

Aristotle

Artistic Choices, Probability, Impossibility, Creative Preference, Aesthetic Philosophy

9. “The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.”

Jack Canfield

Opportunity, Effort, Probability, Success, Experimentation, Action

10. “What I’m trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.”

Elon Musk

Future, Vision, Improvement, Probability, Goals

11. “The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”

Elon Musk

Possibility, Probability, Goals, Progress, Innovation

12. “Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we’re trying to do. It’s imperfect, but that’s what it’s all about.”

Warren Buffett

Investment, Risk, Strategy, Probability, Finance

13. “We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.”

Warren Buffett

Investment, Probability, Decision Making, Risk, Finance

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