Birth Quote by Eric Chaisson

Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is…

— Jacques Monod

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence…

— David Hume

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

— Baruch Spinoza

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

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

— Eric Chaisson

“Chance is a perfectly good word to describe mathematic possibilities, but it is only a word. It is not an entity. Chance is nothing.…

— R.C. Sproul

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

— Menander

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

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

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

— Claude Bernard

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

— Voltaire

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

— Friedrich Schiller