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Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all… — Fred Hoyle
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers… — Alan Greenspan
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus… — Arthur Koestler
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,… — Jacques Monod
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin… — Princess Diana
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis… — Andre-Marie Ampere
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to… — Fred Hoyle
When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose. — Deepak Chopra
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough… — Fred Hoyle
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are… — Chandra Wickramasinghe
Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random. — Hamza Yusuf
Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say. — Lorde
I think someone follows me. They do the most random stuff. I get a photo taken through a burger drive-through window and it's like, 'What?'.… — Robert Pattinson
I'm always shocked by the people who I'm attracted to. It's always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah,… — Robert Pattinson
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the… — John Irving
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection… — Paul Caponigro
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn… — Benjamin Bloom
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind — Richard Dawkins
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand

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