“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...” — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Working hard leaves enough time to rest, but hardworking people still use these resting moments to work. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Possibility or Impossibility doesn't depend on the size of our GOAL but on the size of our FAITH... — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.” — Raymond M. Smullyan Copy Share Image
Work hard. Think positively. Pray justly. Don't wait for someone to tell you the secret of success before you start. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Our life is a series of challenges, and how we tackle challenges is what makes the real difference in deciding the direction… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only… — Peter van Inwagen Copy Share Image
“In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Everything you do is based on the choices you make. it's not your parents, your past relationship, your job, the economy, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Then there was The House of Future Needs, an old pawn shop that engaged in the sale of utterly useless trinkets. Except,… — Louise Blackwick Copy Share Image
“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of… — Pierre Simon de Laplace Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is:… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We can say that Faustus makes a choice, and that he is responsible for his choice, but there is in the play… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance,… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it… — Christopher Janaway Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?)…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74c/oliver-d-crisp-12863_atonement_sometimes-we-can-lose-the-wood-for-the-t_1996596.jpg)
