Quotes About Chance

Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

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

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

Do you love me?" His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool's chance at that

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.

Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties

The gray has no chance against that smile. It vanishes in a wonderful haze of bright color.

race—but over the course of the year, as the uncertainty grows, his odds of mishap increase.

Still—nowadays, the most impossible things are possible.

and you have to take gladly what life offers, she has learned that much, and sometimes you get lucky. There's nothing wrong with that, is there? There's nothing wrong with that.

So true it is that man proposes and God disposes.

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

But this is too strange. In this sea of coincidences, I am beginning to understand that we don't control our destinies; they are mapped out for us as surely as we are born.