Chance Quote by Anne Tyler

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

— Voltaire

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Katsuki Sekida

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

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

— Richard Dawkins

“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

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter

— Baltasar Gracian

“I believe that chance creates order in the world. We can’t choreograph life events, but we can clasp the hands of those who appear…

— Maria Mayo Robbins This I Believe II

“The beauty of chance is that it is not controlled by the bonds of fate. There is no structure, no preconceived notions. What will…

— A.C. Heller

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

Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

— Walter Bradford Cannon