The improbable

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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

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The improbable

Author

Thomas Hardy

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hardy, Thomas. Notebook entry. 12 Feb. 1871.

Current Citation

Hardy, Thomas. The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy: with an Appendix Including the Unpublished Passages in the Original Typescripts of the Life of Thomas Hardy. Columbia University Press, 1979.

Our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable (improbable according to our current knowledge)-and all the while we spend our time engaged in small talk, focusing on the known, and the repeated.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan

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The improbable

Author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Source

The Black Swan

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Random House/Allen Lane, 2007, prologue.