Chance Quote by Frank Herbert

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

— Katsuki Sekida

What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity,…

— Horace Walpole

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

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.

— Sherlock Holmes

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

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

— Voltaire

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

— Gerhard Richter

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

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche