Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
“She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from? — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
“The point is, there is no point." Philip spoke up surprisingly. "No one here gets out alive. And over a sufficient period… — Rosemary Edghill Copy Share Image
“The broader appeal of statistics lay in the idea of an order beneath apparent randomness. Individuals—molecules or humans—might act unpredictably, but statistics… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, your brain doesn’t like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you don’t.… — Eric Barker 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
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
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
“One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than… — Marcus du Sautoy 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
“Nero believes that risk-conscious hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probability. Beyond… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,… — Richard Dawkins 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
“The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“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
I don't want to have a singular vision. I don't have that kind of discipline. I love the randomness of my life… — Reed Krakoff 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
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
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next… — Henry Petroski 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
I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is… — Apichatpong Weerasethakul 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 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
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 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
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
Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the… — Jeanette Winterson 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
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
“Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of… — Terry Pratchett 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