plausibility

Faith is timeless possibility.

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.

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

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

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

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.