Breakthrough Quote by Walter Bradford Cannon

Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.

— Sherlock Holmes

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and…

— Jean Piaget

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

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

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

— Frank Herbert

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Kenneth Oppel

Progress is impossible without taking chances, those who can't take chances can not be innovative, they are stuck to one point and doomed to…

— Anil Kumar Sinha

“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

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

Chance favors the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur