Chance Quote by Francis Crick

Novelty always sparks ideas.

— Benji Madden

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

— Honore de Balzac

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

Novelty in all things is charming.

— Ovid

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

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

— Aphra Behn

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

— Adam Grant

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

— Baruch Spinoza

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange…

— Eric Chaisson