Chance Quotes

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.

For forms existing in larger numbers will always have a better chance, within any given period, of presenting further favourable variations for natural selection to seize on, than will the rarer forms which exist in lesser numbers.

It is not that these countries, so rich in species, do not by a strange chance possess the aboriginal stocks of any useful plants, but that the native plants have not been improved by continued selection up to a standard of perfection comparable with that given to the plants in countries anciently civilised.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

It is impossible to conceive of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

While we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.