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Implausible Quotes

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction Picture Quote #1

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true Picture Quote #1

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible Picture Quote #1

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible Picture Quote #1

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested God, becomes increasingly implausible Picture Quote #1

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another Picture Quote #1

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Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts Picture Quote #1

To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity Picture Quote #1

When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can’t help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left Picture Quote #1

The flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories Picture Quote #1

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There’s a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful Picture Quote #1

Reading ‘Youth in Revolt’ might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn’t do that very well Picture Quote #1

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Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible Picture Quote #1

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it’s absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so Picture Quote #1

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful Picture Quote #1

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel Picture Quote #1

The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it’s extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life Picture Quote #1

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn’t pretend for a moment that I hadn’t made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in Picture Quote #1

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It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true Picture Quote #1

We’ll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will Picture Quote #1

It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft Picture Quote #1

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously Picture Quote #1

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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction (Implausible Quotes) A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true (Implausible Quotes) Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible (Implausible Quotes) While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible (Implausible Quotes) As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested God, becomes increasingly implausible. (Implausible Quotes) One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another (Implausible Quotes) Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts. (Implausible Quotes) To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity. (Implausible Quotes) When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can’t help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left. (Implausible Quotes) The flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories (Implausible Quotes) There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There’s a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful. (Implausible Quotes) Reading ‘Youth in Revolt’ might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn’t do that very well (Implausible Quotes) Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible (Implausible Quotes) My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it’s absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so (Implausible Quotes) There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful (Implausible Quotes) More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel (Implausible Quotes) The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it’s extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life (Implausible Quotes) All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn’t pretend for a moment that I hadn’t made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in (Implausible Quotes) It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true (Implausible Quotes) We’ll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will (Implausible Quotes) It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft (Implausible Quotes) Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously (Implausible Quotes)