Quotes About Chance

I have never found 'luck' a dependable companion

one might say that my entire life has been a wager against chance—

They've transformed the weather into some sort of celestial crap game.

Death and life are both simply the hazards of a chance which cannot be averted

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

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

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.

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.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.