Chance Quotes

6711 Chance quotes by 4117 unique authors

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of… — Jacques Monod
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in… — Gerolamo Cardano
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at… — Jacques Monod
Chance and necessity. — Jacques Monod
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of… — Gian-Carlo Rota
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force… — John Arbuthnot
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed… — John B. S. Haldane
What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet… — Ludwig Buchner
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. — Pete Rose
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to… — Lewis Carroll
Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren. Omdat de plaatsing van de… — Hans Arp
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine… — Alan Turing
Das immer gegenwärtige Zufallselement im künstlerischen Erzeugungsprozeß erfaßt die generative Graphik modellmäßig durch den Einbau von Zufallsgeneratoren in die Programme. [. . .] Die Zufallsgeneratoren… — Unknown Author
[...] Ich bin kein anhänger der Behauptung, daß Maschinen kreativ seien. Jederman, der dies sein sollte, muß jedoch beschreiben, woher die Intuition der Maschinen für… — Unknown Author
Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou… — Jean Baudrillard
Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty… — Emma Goldman
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the… — Edward de Bono
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Unknown Author
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. — Paul Harvey
Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley
You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand… — Daniel Clowes
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the… — John Maynard Keynes
Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave… — Mary Landrieu

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