Determinism Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”

— Eric Chaisson

“Contingency cannot be a contingent phenomenon. All unforeseen circumstances have unknown causes.”

— Elmar Hussein

God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this…

— Martin Luther

“To the best of our scientific understanding, determinism and randomness have divided the entire cake between them, leaving not even a crumb for ‘freedom’.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Quantum physics might seem to undermine the idea that nature is governed by laws, but that is not the case. Instead it leads us…

— Stephen Hawking

Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of…

— Peter van Inwagen

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

Randomness is valued.

— Randomguyfromnowhere

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

— Aristotle

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

— Ilya Prigogine

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