Quotes About Randomness

sometimes you die sometimes you don't.

The belief otherwise is sometimes called "the gambler's fallacy." In fact, if you flip a fair coin 1,000,000 times and get 1,000,000 heads in a row, the probability of getting tails on the next flip is still ½. The

some might have 62 blue marbles and 38 red marbles, or 58 blue and 42 red. But the chances of drawing any random sample that deviates hugely from the composition of marbles in the urn are very, very low.

And just as there is random horror-murder,suicide,child abuse,car accidents.......there is also indiscriminate kindness. Not merely miracles,though I have experienced them.But simple human connection,either brokered by an angel or sourced by one. That is why I try to encourage people to be receptive to that new person who seems to have appeared in their life out of nowhere.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

So far, you have read of the deaths of 557,017 people – one of whom was killed by a streetcar, one of whom died of bronchitis and one of whom died in a barn with her rabbits.

For a change, Lady Luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Chance is a funny thing. A fat one and a slim one are the same thing.

The world is a very strange place,and the dice are always rolling

GULL (musing) : The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys (he has surprised himself) ... if six monkeys were .. . ROS: Game? GULL: Were they? ROS: Are you? GULL (understanding): Game. (Flips a coin.) The law of averages, if I have got this right, means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their

Most other front gardens when planted with flowers looked both formal and artificial. Judith Haymaker, for instance, had put in daffodil and hyacinth bulbs so that they came up in rigid rows, a sight English women would have smiled at. While plentiful, Mrs Reed's flowers had a randomness about them that reminded Honor of coming upon primroses or anemones in the woods. They were just there, as if they always had been. It took real skill to remove the gardener's hand from the garden.

La casualidad es la única dueña y señora del universo, ya lo dijo Einstein

La casualidad es la única dueña y señora del universo.

Enemies of the all powerful God, guess what folks? The universe doesn't know or care. If you appreciate the miracle of creation is randomness and that's what makes creation a miracle-congratulations. You've made it into the God club.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

Probability does not refer to the evolution of matter in itself. It relates to the evolution of those specific quantities we interact with.

The growth of entropy is nothing other than the ubiquitous and familiar natural increase of disorder.

information is the measure of the number of possible alternatives for something. For example, if I throw a die, it can land on one of six faces.

We usually speak of probability when we do not have all the data.

The apparent determinism of the macroscopic world is due only to the fact that the microscopic randomness cancels out on average, leaving only fluctuations too minute for us to perceive in everyday life.

I know one thing -- I don't understand it. Will Adam's survival, or Morris's, depend on something little like that? Like a toss of a coin? It makes me feel like everything must be terribly important, even the toss of a coin, or nothing is important, and we may as well not care about anything.

The constant bombardment and the randomness with which death scythed us down had exhausted us...

In a free economy, a high degree of apparent randomness does not mean actual randomness. An apparently random pattern is evidence not of purposelessness but of an entrepreneurial economy full of creative surprises.