Chance Quote by Paul Auster

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

— Gerhard Richter

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

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

— Menander

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

— Amy Tan

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

— Katsuki Sekida

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

Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or…

— Mohsin Hamid

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

— David Gilmour

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make…

— Hans Selye

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

— Nicholas Sparks