Chance Quote by Harold Morowitz

“It seems to me trivially true that particle physics does in fact deal with the simplest objects in the entire universe: atoms and their…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us…

— Lewis Thomas

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

— Ilya Prigogine

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

— Kesha

“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

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

An electron is real; a probability is not.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature…

— Charles Darwin

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the…

— Michael Denton

“In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me,…

— Annie Dillard

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

Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per…

— Martin Rees