Chance Quote by Amos Tversky

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

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined…

— Richard Dawkins

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

— John Polkinghorne

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

— Voltaire

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

— Katsuki Sekida

What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity,…

— Horace Walpole

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

— Menander

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to…

— Richard Dawkins

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic,…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance”

— Richard Dawkins