Chance Quote by John Polkinghorne

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

— Voltaire

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

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

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

— Gary Gygax

“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined…

— Richard Dawkins

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

— Menander

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

— Katsuki Sekida

“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

“A random event, by definition, does not lend itself to explanation, but collections of random events do behave in a highly regular fashion. Imagine…

— Daniel Kahneman

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

— Gerhard Richter

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