Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate.… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time,… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
While traveling, I've found that spontaneity keeps things fresh, while serendipity guides me through it all. There have been a lot of… — Joseph Pisani Copy Share Image
I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I like to keep my life very fluid. I like serendipity and rolling through different ideas and possibilities. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.” — Emery Allen Copy Share Image
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
“If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference; Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
“Be it if only through thoughts of clarity, Elated to finally see a crystal clear light. As it'll be just through pure… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
It would require a lot of neglect of my own life and memory to say I don't believe in serendipity. — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“There's that day when you realize that everything that happened before that one person found you, probably happened to prepare you and… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
