Randomness Quotes

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Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness. — Fran Lebowitz
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose… — Marianne Bluger
We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out… — Viggo Mortensen
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure. — Alain Badiou
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome… — Stephen Dunn
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didnâ€™t take me long to conclude that it was simply… — Lee Strobel
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes
If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos? — Rupert Sheldrake
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense… — May Swenson
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all. — Wally Lamb
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder… — Richard Preston
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. — James Gleick
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that… — Eric Chaisson
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies… — Richard Dawkins
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways… — Leonard Mlodinow
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without… — Lynne Tillman

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