Quotes About Chance

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

Winning the lottery isn't luck, it's an accident. Spending the proceeds wisely is luck.

Hom semper aliud, fortna aliud cgitat.

Su cuique mrs fingunt fortnam. (Cornelius Nepos

All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand coincidences and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.

Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.

Felaket, deÄŸiÅŸimdir. Üzerine bol gelen, kapüÅŸonlu bir giysinin içindeki f?rsatt?r o.

Sometimes the gods give you a break.

There was a stove pipe on top of the box, but there were no bullet holes in the pipe. I was amazed. Almost all the camp stoves we had seen in Idaho had been full of bullet holes. I guess it's only reasonable that people, when they get the chance, would want to shoot some old stove sitting in the woods." Excerpt From Trout Fishing in America

Toronto will always be like the flipside of a dream for me. I called heads but Toronto came up tails.

bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Chance is just a word expressing ignorance

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.

Bad things happen because things happen.

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

One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'.

Turns' and 'fairness' simply don't come into it. We may care about fairness and unfairness, but coins don't give a toss!

In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice.

History is usually a random, messy affair'

Creationist 'logic' is always the same. Some natural phenomenon is too statistically improbable, too complex, too beautiful, too awe-inspiring to have come into existence by chance. Design is the only alternative to chance that the authors can imagine.