Chance Quote by Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

— Eric Chaisson

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

— John Polkinghorne

“We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or…

— Kahneman

“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

Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our…

— DJ Spooky

We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and…

— Albert Claude

“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

“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate…

— Mpho Leteng

“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance…

— Vann Chow

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

— Sidney Poitier

“NOTHING OCCURS AT RANDOM, BUT EVERYTHING FOR A REASON AND BY NECESSITY.”

— Leucippus 5th Century B.c