Luck Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance”

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Voltaire

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

“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it…

— René Guénon

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

— Leslie Stephen

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

— John Polkinghorne

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

— Baruch Spinoza

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

— Aristotle

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

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence…

— David Hume

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

— Adam Clarke

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

— Menander