Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous. — John Gruber Copy Share Image
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“It's all a series of serendipities with no beginnings and no ends. Such infinitesimal possibilities Through which love transcends.” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without our being childhgood neighbors, I am certain… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous… — George Vecsey Copy Share Image
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade… — John Ray Copy Share Image
At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis… — Jacques Ibert Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image