Luck Quote by Sherlock Holmes

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

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

— Robert M. Hutchins

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

— Katsuki Sekida

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

— Gerhard Richter

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

— Kenneth Oppel

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

— Anonymous

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

— Frank Herbert

Chance favours the trained mind.

— Louis Pasteur

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

— Simon Blackburn

What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity,…

— Horace Walpole

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 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