How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth?

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

When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.

Once you eliminate the impossible whatever remains no matter how improbable must be the truth.

Suicide is possible but not probable hanging I trust is even more unlikely for I hope that by the time I die my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true we ought to follow what is most probable.

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

It is hard to say what the future holds but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

Wealth in even the most improbable cases manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

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

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.

At first dreams seem impossible then improbable and eventually inevitable.

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

As human beings we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience if something has never happened before we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

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.