Accidents Quote by Adam Clarke

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

— Adam Clarke

“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it…

— René Guénon

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

— Voltaire

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence…

— David Hume

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as…

— Ludwig Buchner

“Chance is a perfectly good word to describe mathematic possibilities, but it is only a word. It is not an entity. Chance is nothing.…

— R.C. Sproul

“We do not accept that things may occur due to random chance, instead, we attribute it to God or just say, “it was meant…

— Nicholas Cross

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

— Menander

The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks…

— Harold Percival

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to…

— Henri Poincare