Alternatives Quote by Richard Dawkins

“The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe it just happened by blind chance...the obvious alternative to chance is an…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Katsuki Sekida

“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested.…

— Richard Dawkins

Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to…

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Voltaire

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

— Elon Musk

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

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

“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 throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

— Walter Bradford Cannon

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

— Jennifer Michael Hecht