Quotes About Chance

You win some, you lose some, let Karma takes its course… - Cocoy McCoy -

The best things in life are the things you do by mistake.

The odds are stacked against you until you realize: You make the odds.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.

And even if we make good plans based on the best information available at the time and people do exactly what we plan, the effects of our actions may not be the ones we wanted because the environment is nonlinear and hence is fundamentally unpredictable. As time passes the situation will change, chance events will occur, other agents such as customers or competitors will take actions of their own, and we will find that what we do is only one factor among several which create a new situation.

We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success.

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

If a substantive chance hypothesis necessarily negates or nullifies explanations involving physical-chemical necessity and design, then the presence of a pattern necessarily negates chance.

Many origin-of-life scientists have similarly recognized how difficult it is to generate specified biological information by chance alone in the time available on the early earth (or even in the time available since the beginning of the universe).

Earlier, in 1954, biochemist George Wald argued for the causal efficacy of chance in conjunction with vast expanses of time. As he explained, "Time is in fact the hero of the plot…. Given so much time, the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain."2

He just falls and falls, and, in case it looks too much like a sequel set-up, he catches a couple of shattering ledges on the way down, and, on the chance that's not enough, we go

God not only plays dice, He throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Your idealism will get you killed or, worse, knighted, and you'll spend the rest of your days among fools and MPs. As for me, the chance to refuse an audience with the queen would be exquisite.

Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a 'higher answer'– but none exists

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

I desperately wanted a chance to prove myself. Not because I cared a fart for druids. No. I had instead conceived a new plan for escape.