Improbability Quotes

[W]e can calculate our way into regions of miraculous improbability far greater than we can imagine ...

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Picture of Richard Dawkins — Richard DawkinsThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

What we can imagine as plausible is a narrow band in the middle of a much broader spectrum of what i...

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Picture of Richard Dawkins — Richard DawkinsThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, ...

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Picture of Bill Bryson — Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything