Quotes About Randomness

The only morality in a cruel world is chance.

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Chance is a second master.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

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

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?

La question à l'échelle du macrocosme comme du microcosme, y a-t-il une intention ou bien seulement nécessité et hasard ? (p.203)

Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into its description...The arrow of time is the manifestation of the fact that the future is not given, that, as the French poet Paul Valery emphasized, 'time is a construction'.

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math.

A physicist once told me that one view of our universe is that its stability is an accident, that thousands upon thousands of relationships are unstable and that chance alone holds ours together.

history has no overall direction or purpose

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.

Causally, noise is nowhere; statistically, it is everywhere.

The broader appeal of statistics lay in the idea of an order beneath apparent randomness. Individuals—molecules or humans—might act unpredictably, but statistics seemed to show that in the aggregate their behavior conformed to stable laws.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.