Begets Quote by David Hume

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

— Leslie Stephen

The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

— Voltaire

“Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance”

— Richard Dawkins

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

— Menander

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

— Daniel Kahneman

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

— Adam Clarke

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that…

— Adam Clarke

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as…

— Ludwig Buchner

“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined…

— Richard Dawkins

Everybody believes in chance.

— Ann Patchett