Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.
Robert A. Heinlein
Related The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its exis... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. EBERHARD WEBER Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. EDWARD FURLONG Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. GARY GYGAX Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie... EDWARD FURLONG The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. ROBERT R. COVEYOU Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits... LAUREN OLIVER No, no, it's not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and ... R.J. PALACIO It's very much random, almost like a slot machine for kids. It's the aspect of chance that I like. GREG SKAGGS If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH This was not a random shooting. This was not school-related. This was not juvenile-related. CMDR. RASHALL BRACKNEY The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random ... LEONARD SUSSKIND One expected test in spring training, an announced test during the season and one random test [aren'... DICK POUND My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one th... CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE I'm not going to do a Random House. JOAN DUNPHY He was very inquisitive; always asking random questions about random things. BRETT BAILEY Some of us choose not to be rather created in this universe. You choose not to be created. But creat... EPHDAN The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanat... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We're going to implement an element of random secondary inspections at the checkpoint. But because i... NICO MELENDEZ Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random ... DEYTH BANGER A program that does not include random testing is not very effective. LAJUANA WILCHER It wasn't a random act. It appears this victim was an intended target and that this was not a robber... MARIA OROPEZA The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights. IAN HACKING Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects... KARL JASPERS I choose to live by choice, not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be motivated, not manipu... MIRANDA MARROTT Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. RICHARD DAWKINS Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers! AVIJEET DAS This appears to be another senseless tragedy, but it was not random, ... knew who they were after. BILL BELL If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t... NORMAN AUGUSTINE If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t... NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE Chance and necessity do not explain the origins of life. STEPHEN MEYER It really scared a lot of people. It was so random. JUSTIN WARD The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by... FRITZ ZWICKY Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN This is a standard tactic of alarmists -- to search a huge literature to find a small number of stud... JAY LEHR Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone h... VERA NAZARIAN Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstan... BRYCE COURTENAY You don't become a Christian by chance, God calls you because He already determined it. You really t... NORM TOMLINSON What? I'm not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter. J. LYNN It is not sufficient that I suceed - all others must fail. GENGHIS KHAN As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; th... MARK SHIELDS Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents ORHAN PAMUK You want to believe that those who work hard and sacrifice get ahead and those who are lazy and chea... DAVID MCRANEY This appears to be random. I think there was a search for a car that was unlocked. PAUL DONNELLY IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED! NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i... NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste... NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you... NOT SURE It was probably because of the fact that we made it so far in the tournament. It gave coaches a chan... BRANDON MOSS I can't believe it was a random thing. It was with intent, it was too brutal. JULIE HELIN Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, v... ANTHONY FAUCI Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and op... MALCOLM GLADWELL Smith could 'read' the rocks on the surface. He realized that it was not random, that earth's proces... TRACY GREGG This type of random violence is repulsive, and it must not be allowed to go unpunished, KWEISI MFUME Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not ra... KEN ROBINSON Most of these changes result from local conditions or random variation, ... it's not a rosy picture ... JAMES ALAN FOX When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls. ZARA LARSSON Random acts of kindness are great!! Although, I do often just prefer random, senseless, and hilariou... JOEY TALLADINO I have a lot of random hobbies. ROSS BUTLER He had an explanation for everything. It was a fascinating chance to explore the mind of O.J. Simpso... CRAIG SILVERMAN If the Universe possesses intrinsically random elements in their make up, inherited from its quantum... JOHN D. BARROW Random Acts of Management. SCOTT ADAMS I knew there was a chance I could be invited, but not with the numbers I put up. KYLE MCKENZIE At this point, it appears to be a random act, and while nothing has been ruled out, it does not appe... CRYSTAL CANDY I am not working at random or just on a whim. Our movement has a deep spiritual origin. It came into... SUN MYUNG MOON No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible GEORGE BURNS An early morning fray could ruin a day. MJ CHRISTINE There are too many weirdos in this world already. Everyone's trying to be different. If you really w... MJ CHRISTINE I used to ask "Why" to just about any subject when I was a kid.. until I got scolded. I realized the... MJ CHRISTINE Laundry and car wash are the magic words for rain. MJ CHRISTINE I can only be me and nobody else. (2008) MJ CHRISTINE I'm so broke, I can't even afford to be sad. MJ CHRISTINE My mom's cough sounds painful. If only I could take it, I would. MJ CHRISTINE Why ideas come to mind when you're about to sleep? MJ CHRISTINE I like guys who wear pink shirt, they look cleaner. MJ CHRISTINE Vanilla flavored cum and cigarette tasting kisses... ZEPPELIN HARLOW ROSE Seeing is believing ALYSON NOEL I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.' 'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. ... JOHN GREEN Flirtation doesn't have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn't need to end up in bed. I like to think... KAREN MARIE MONING A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe... ABRAHAM H. MASLOW Insane means fewer cameras! ALLY CARTER It sounds like it was a random criminal action because there was an individual who used his credit c... ALAN BELL The mathematical theory of random polynomials and random matrices has already found many application... JEAN DALIBARD These people who are being arrested are really drunk. We're not going up to random people. CAROLYN BECK Absolutely be random in choosing your password and mix in random numbers and symbols, too. And chang... AMANDA PIRES A random act of kindness goes a long way. NORM TOMLINSON This was completely unprovoked. It really could have been anybody. It was a random act of violence. ... KATE WAGNER I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's... CHANCE THE RAPPER The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business sid... CHANCE THE RAPPER With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into ... CHANCE THE RAPPER Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now.... CHANCE THE RAPPER One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten gra... CHANCE THE RAPPER I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something an... CHANCE THE RAPPER Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try a... CHANCE THE RAPPER The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you ... CHANCE THE RAPPER I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been some... CHANCE THE RAPPER Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music. CHANCE THE RAPPER I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people... CHANCE THE RAPPER
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