Angry Quote by Wolfgang Paul

Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is…

— Jacques Monod

“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. Why, I wonder, is…

— Richard Dawkins

“A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance”

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Baruch Spinoza

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

— Richard Dawkins

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

Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept…

— Michael Denton

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA…

— Alice Roberts

I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about…

— Darrel R. Falk

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible…

— Richard P. Feynman