Accidents Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Action Dues Fortune Inevitable Law Misfortunes Natural Natural law
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And this accident came about...?"Through nature's unpredictability not man's incapacity. No errors were committed in our maneuvers. Nevertheless, we can't prevent a loss of… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws. A purely random… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“To describe something as an accident is a lazy way of exempting oneself from the obligation of investigating or even preventing it in the… — Jo Nelson 2011 Copy Share Image
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Circumstances occur automatically and scientifically and they dissipate according to the natural law.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.” — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“But there are no real accidents, only decisions that feel like accidents, one after another, that take you down a certain road and take… — Nichole Bernier Copy Share Image
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
