Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
Frank HerbertTags: technology chance uncertainty
Life is too precious to be left to chance
Walter MoersI loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.
Becca FitzpatrickLife, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.
T.F. HodgeTags: life choice freedom will living opportunity chance quotes gift
I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
Brandon BoydTags: life inspirational love chance
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; particular events must take place in it, the probability of which (before the event) was infinitesimal. At the present time we have no legitimate grounds for either asserting or denying that life got off to but a single start on earth, and that, as a consequence, before it appeared its chances of occurring were next to nil. ... Destiny is written concurrently with the event, not prior to it... The universe was not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. Our number came up in the Monte Carlo game. Is it surprising that, like the person who has just made a million at the casino, we should feel strange and a little unreal?
Jacques MonodTags: science biology chance physics probability a-priori
That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.
Fate. Luck. Chance.
Tags: fate chance life-lessons luck
... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...
Eric ChaissonTags: determinism nature necessity chance randomness
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.
Eric ChaissonTags: determinism chance evolution planet solar-system
I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.
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