Quotes About Chance

Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!

Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!

Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!

To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!

We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

Your mind and your luck determine your destiny!

La stabilità del potere spegne le speranze di quanti non l'hanno e che potrebbero ottenerlo solo per un mutamento di governo, perché è l'instabilità ad assicurare i rivolgimenti della fortuna di cui quasi tutti hanno bisogno per migliorare la propria condizione.

We have a poor mathematical, as well as a poor intuitive understanding of the nature of coincidence.

Japan." Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if I come home and you're still pining over this little girl without having given her a chance, I will call you a chicken shit for the rest of your life.

My advice? Get out the Norton I left you, and you better bloody still have it because if you lost it like you did my Slade Alive! LP, I will hunt you down, son. Page 1902. "Japan." Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if I come home and you're still pining over this little girl without having given her a chance, I will call you a chicken shit for the rest of your life.

But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another

You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.

course. There was only one spare seat in the whole room, and we already

Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so it would appear to me

He who does not venture has no luck.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

There is no perfection but in chance

Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not. Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

If you don't take risks, there's no room for luck. I took a chance. I got lucky.

I'm sure there are many other Forrest Gump moments that I'm forgetting. I don't mention them as boasts, but rather as evidence of how ridiculously lucky I have been to have lived the life that I have.

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

Randomness and luck are related, but there is a useful distinction between the two. You can think of randomness as operating at the level of a system and luck operating at the level of the individual.