Courage Quote by Annie Dillard

“If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one…

— Annie Dillard

“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to…

— Francis Collins

“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”

— Eric Chaisson

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

— Richard Dawkins

Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is…

— Jacques Monod

“To me, chance isn't random. The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Chance has no real basis for producing anything. The assumption that time plus matter plus chance could produce intelligence is mythological.”

— Steve Kumar

“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

If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce…

— Christian de Duve

That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us…

— Lewis Thomas