Quotes About Randomness

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

Films are all luck and anarchy.

Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.

For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice.

The truth is that life itself is brutally, obscenely unfair. Consider all those other millions of sperm cells that were just as good as the one that resulted in you, and where are they now? Dead, nowhere.

The chances that lose in the lottery of being are invisible

Just as it is impossible to predict with complete accuracy the path of a single electron, so too you cannot know with certainty the future behavior of a single potato. Thus far observations show that man has mashed potatoes millions of times, but it is not inconceivable that one time in a billion the situation could reverse itself, that a potato could mash a man.

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves. And all myths however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.

God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

God does not play dice.

Parece que en la naturaleza hay un cierto nivel de aleatoriedad o incertidumbre, que no se puede eliminar por muy buenas que sean las teorías. Eso se puede resumir en el Principio de Incertidumbre, formulado en 1927 por el científico alemán Werner Heisenberg.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throw the dice where they cannot be seen.

Indeed, if it were, it would by definition not be random. In modern times, we have effectively removed the third possibility above by redefining the goal of science: our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle.

It's like winning a lottery. Although the odds are astronomical, most weeks, someone hits the jackpot.

His feelings were summed up in his dictum "God does not play dice." But all the evidence is that God is quite a gambler. The universe is like a giant casino with dice being rolled, or wheels being spun, on every occasion.

Ibarat segerombolan monyet yang memencet-mencet mesin tik–sebagian besar akan mengetik sampah, tapi pada beberapa kesempatan secara kebetulan akan ada soneta Shakespeare yang diketik.

Belli ki Tanr? yaln?zca zar atmakla kalm?yor,ayr?ca gözleri kapal? oynuyor ve ara s?ra da zarlar? görülemeyecek yerlere at?yor.

In Darwins post-platonische werelds is de variatie de fundamentele werkelijkheid en veranderen berekende gemiddelden in abstracties. We blijven echter de voorkeur geven aan het oudere en tegengestelde standpunt: we zien variatie nog steeds als een massa onlogische toevalligheden, die hoofdzakelijk van waarde is omdat zo'n spreiding te gebruiken is voor de berekening van een gemiddelde, hetgeen we dan beschouwen als iets wat een essentie nog het best benadert.

So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. It's all just luck.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

There's no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

Of course, we could do simulations with random number generators and make statistical predictions about long-term outcomes. But suppose that what looks to us like a random event is really controlled by forces outside our perceptible sphere?

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.