Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called natural world. Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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Faith is timeless possibility.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.

~ Alva Noë

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Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

~ Raheel Farooq

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Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

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It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

~ Mark Twain

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