“... 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
“Einstein had, for the first time connected new and measurable consequences to statistical physics. That might sound like a largely technical achievement,… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay,… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Then there is the cosmologist, who views himself as nothing but a manipulation of atoms; his mind configured out of randomness into… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
“we seek what we think are simple explanations for events in our lives because we believe the simpler something is, the more… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether… — Paul Tran Copy Share Image
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“...any object functioning within the physical laws of any particular universe does not have free will ... In terms of human beings,… — Mark J. Solomon Copy Share Image
“When you roll the dice, let someone else act as a catalyst. God does not place with dice.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“By adapting and adjusting to randomness, you shape but do not control your endpoint.” — Bob Deutsch Copy Share Image
Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices. — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
“We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering… — Marianne Bluger Copy Share Image
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to view any seemingly random conjunction… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The quantum world feels random, but as we saw in the last chapter, Everett’s work suggests that randomness, too, is an illusion,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
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