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Is life that improbable?"
So when you think about the improbable nature of what I'm going to tell you in the next few minutes, just remember, we came from stuff on planet Earth.
And again, when you're thinking about how improbable this is, remember, five billion years ago, we were not here, and there was no life.
Now lest you think it improbable that a college volunteer can make this kind of commitment, I have two words for you: March Madness.
Every time her ex-boyfriend would show up, at the most improbable times and the most improbable locations, he was carrying an open laptop, and over time Carol realized that he had planted a GPS tracking device on her car, so she was calling me for help to disable it.
It's because leaders, what we do is we connect improbable connections and hope something will happen, and in that room I found so many connections between people across all of London, and so leadership, connecting people, is the great question today.
Some rough research suggests this could unlock around 100 million pounds' worth a day of new economic activity in a country the size of the U.K. Does that sound improbable to you?
In fact, that term, David and Goliath, has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
So why do we keep calling David an underdog, and why do we keep referring to his victory as improbable?
We fret too much about minor hazards — improbable air crashes, carcinogens in food, low radiation doses, and so forth — but we and our political masters are in denial about catastrophic scenarios.
It's an important maxim that the unfamiliar is not the same as the improbable, and in fact, that's why we at Cambridge University are setting up a center to study how to mitigate these existential risks.
you know, our existence would seem to be amazingly improbable, because there's an enormous number of genetically possible humans, if you can compute it by looking at the number of the genes and the number of alleles and so forth, and a back-of-the-envelope calculation will tell you there are about 10 to the 10,000th possible humans, genetically.
In 1998, after having been swept up into an improbable romance, I was then swept up into the eye of a political, legal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before.
That's not an improbable sample.
Our true final frontier is the line we must cross in deciding what we can and should make of our species' improbable intelligence.
And over vast tracts of time, the improbable becomes the probable.
But over geological time, improbable, nearly impossible events do occur.
No doubt, those worlds would be both amazing and amazingly improbable, but they would not be our world and they would not have our history.
And so did another equally improbable, accidental designer, who was also not above using violence to get what he wanted.
Yet design was also used to nobler ends by an equally brilliant and equally improbable designer, the 19th-century British nurse, Florence Nightingale.
Something that was unimaginable, unforeseeable and completely improbable.
The reason words with R in the third place come slowly to your mind isn't because they're improbable, unlikely or infrequent.
And there was a passage in it which he did not present here and I think it is so good, I'm going to read it to you: "Over billions of years on a unique sphere, chance has painted a thin covering of life: complex, improbable, wonderful and fragile.
Miracles are just events that are extremely improbable.
Evolution in Middle World has not equipped us to handle very improbable events; we don't live long enough.
Henriksen evokes an unusual, not-quite-earthbound Everyman (even sporting an ample gut), but Roberts is about as threatening and scary as an extra in "Death Wish 3"; we're never sucked in to the point where we actually CARE about what's happening, and the conclusion slides into improbable territory (I kept thinking it was going to be "Fight Club" all over again, but I was mistaken).
This movie is highly improbable.
God, how I miss John Carpenter and his improbable plot line and his weird sense of humor.
The movie is filled with that kind of stuff and then tags on an improbable denouement.
I am deeply disappointed, one of the most pompous, pseudo-religious, highly improbable and naive films.
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