For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me:… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age… — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small… — Vann Chow Copy Share Image
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a randomness in real life that too many Hollywood movies just shave off. It feels too intentional, and… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Randomness is my game, randomness brings me fame. My mind is a playground, my mind is the reason my names got around.… — Harriet Morgan Copy Share Image
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
(We are on a bus) I'm extremely silent facing the window...My friend raquel was talking to jack and she said to me… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central.… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness… — Ben Doller Copy Share Image
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me:… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“We may be fascinated by the temptations of random encounters. Still, randomness can upset us by the pertinacity of our habits, actuating… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“The universe is absurd. People want to make sense of it because we’re hardwired to find reason in the randomness. We look… — James Renner Copy Share Image
“How does individual randomness turn into collective regularity? Easy—the odds demand it. The” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“This view of randomness holds that a purposeful bet is powerful not because it may succeed, but because it opens you up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil.… — William Eisner Copy Share Image
I think it's just defence wins championships is the phrase and that's not just borne out of randomness. There's something to that. — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...” — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from… — Catherine McCormack Copy Share Image
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Purpose is how God controls the randomness of life. Without it, you’re just silver ball in the arcade game of life.” — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
“[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
The stock market is an exploitable market where being right means you get rich and you help the overall system error-correct which… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget… — Seldon Edwards Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image