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.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
First, to understand Singapore, you've got to start off with an improbable story. It should not exist... We haven't got the base, the space, the wherewithal. This is not Jamaica or Bahamas or Fiji. This is a little island strategically placed at the southernmost end of Asia connecting the sea routes between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do 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.