Quotes About Unpredictability

Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough

We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That's the wild for you - it's got its dangers, which is part of the beauty.

It struck her that endings were never as you would expect them to be.

They be crazier than we are.

He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind.

You can plan around a ruthless man, but a madman throws all your plans to the wind.

Total consistency is an appalling virtue.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence.

Living under liquid modern conditions can be compared to walking in a minefield: everyone knows an explosion might happen at any moment and in any place, but no one knows when the moment will come and where the place will be.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Biz insanlar evrenin belli gerçeklerini ölçebilecek becerilere sahip deÄŸiliz. Yani, olaylar her ne kadar rastgele görünse de tamamen fiziksel gerçekliklerle koÅŸulland?r?lm??lard?r ve böyle belirlenirler.

Had [Shakespeare] put into the mouths of his heroes only prophecies that were later confirmed, he would have made a case for the total predictability of history. The false prophets are there for a purpose; they testify to the unpredictability of the historical future.

You didn't know what good things were going to happen to you until you were right in the middle of them, so it was best to always be ready.