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Quotes About Randomness

Je planmässiger Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer trifft sie der Zufall.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Our names and titles are assigned randomly by a small monkey who has been fed an exceedingly large amount of gin.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Pocas cosas son verdaderamente aleatorias
~ Brandon Sanderson
There is always a place for chance in things.
~ Henry James
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.
~ Stephen Dunn
God not only plays dice, He throws them in the corner where you can't see them.
~ Stephen Hawking
God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
~ Stephen Hawking
Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
~ Stephen Hawking
The unknowable lives in a pack of cards after it has been fairly shuffled but before it has been dealt, when all the possibilities are open, and when each possibility matters.
~ Steven Burst and Emma Bull
Chaos doesn't mean that the system is behaving randomly, it means that it is unpredictable because it has many variables, it is too complex to measure, and even if it could be measured, theoretically the measurement cannot be done accurately and the tiniest inaccuracy would change the end result an enormous amount.
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life's events. Yet randomness is ever present.
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.
~ Michel de Montaigne
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
~ Milan Kundera
Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
Rastlant?lar?n, sadece rastlant?lar?n söyleyecek bir sözü vard?r bize. Gereklilikten doÄŸan, olmas?n? beklediÄŸimiz, günbegün yinelenen her ÅŸey dilsizdir. Sadece rastlant?lar bir ÅŸeyler söyler bize.
~ Milan Kundera
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? Chance and chance alone has a message for us. everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
Numai întâmplarea ne poate ap?rea ca un mesaj. Tot ce se petrece ca o necesitate, tot ce e de aÈ™teptat È™i se repet? zi de zi nu-i decât un lucru mut. Numai întâmplarea ne spune ceva. Iar noi ne str?duim s? citim în ea, aÈ™a cum citesc È›ig?ncile în figurile desenate de zaÈ›ul cafelei pe fundul ceÈ™tii.
~ Milan Kundera
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs outside of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message as much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.
~ Milan Kundera
Ma non è invece giusto il contrario, che un avvenimento è tanto più significativo e privilegiato quanti più casi fortuiti intervengono a determinarlo? Soltanto il caso può apparirci come un messaggio. Ciò che avviene per necessità, ciò che è atteso, che si ripete ogni giorno, tutto ciò è muto. Soltanto il caso ci parla. Cerchiamo di leggervi dentro come gli zingari leggono le immagini formate dai fondi del caffè in una tazzina.
~ Milan Kundera
Necessity knows no magic formulae—they are all left to chance.
~ Milan Kundera
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read it's message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.
~ Milan Kundera
Chance and chance alone has a message for us.
~ Milan Kundera
Lo que ocurre necesariamente, lo necesario lo que se repite todos los días es mudo. Sólo la casualidad nos habla
~ Milan Kundera