Accidents Quote by Ilya Prigogine

“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

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here…

— George Wald

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

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

“Life may be chemistry, but it's a special circumstance of chemistry. Organisms exist not because of reactions that are possible, but because of reactions…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

— Fred Hoyle

“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.”

— Edwin Conklin

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Kesha

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

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

— Dennis Lindley