“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
“[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
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
“When you roll the dice, let someone else act as a catalyst. God does not place with dice.” — Lionel Suggs 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
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
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
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
“By adapting and adjusting to randomness, you shape but do not control your endpoint.” — Bob Deutsch Copy Share Image
“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...” — Eric Chaisson 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
Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices. — Tristan Perich 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 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
Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. — Douglas Coupland 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
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
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
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
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
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