Chance Quote by Bruce Beutler

Only engineers would do something like random mutagenesis.

— Frances Arnold

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

— Michael Crichton

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

Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Mutations are exciting, there aren't nearly enough of them.

— Doug Stanhope

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson

There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

— Andre Kertesz

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed…

— Lynn Margulis

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the…

— Anonymous

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA…

— Alice Roberts

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions…

— Laurence J. Peter