Chance Quote by Fred Hoyle

“Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all…

— Fred Hoyle

The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big…

— Fred Hoyle

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

If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce…

— Christian de Duve

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years…

— Ilya Prigogine

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours…

— Stephen Hawking

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it…

— Martin Rees

When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation…

— George Wald

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

— Sidney Poitier

“Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe…

— Jacques Monod

“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

Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the…

— Fred Hoyle