Arise Quote by Eric Chaisson

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

Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

— Walter Bradford Cannon

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

Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Eric Chaisson

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

— Eric Hoffer

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

— Katsuki Sekida

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

— Blaise Pascal

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

— Gary Gygax

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due…

— Abraham de Moivre

“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I believe that chance creates order in the world. We can’t choreograph life events, but we can clasp the hands of those who appear…

— Maria Mayo Robbins This I Believe II