Quotes About Randomness

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.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Randomness is a general model that scientists use for things they do not understand.

Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.

Son, anything can happen to anyone, my father told me, but it usually doesn't.

I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

I am amazed at the randomness, the comedy, and the faith that brings us all together and makes us hold on.

I want to see this as well as be a part of it. I want to remember it for what it is. I am amazed by the love I feel for so many people. I am amazed at the randomness, the comedy, and the faith that brings us all together and makes us hold on.

Me asombra lo aleatorio, lo cómico y la fe que nos une a todos y nos hace seguir adelante.

HIs life was always a happenstance.

Le hasard est le plus grand romancier du monde : pour être fécond, il n'y a qu'à l'étudier.

Haosul nu este întâmpl?tor: el este o comportare aparent întâmpl?toare, rezultând din reguli foarte precise. Haosul este o form? criptic? de ordine.

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases.

I did not very often consider the reasons my father died. I didn't believe his life was taken to instill some larger meaning in my character, or make me a better person. I preferred to believe that a person might be taken for no reason other than the random winds of chance, the same forces that could create a brilliant sky after a terrible storm.

There's no justice in who dies

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

It's the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.