Luck is the residue of design
Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965)
Luck is the residue of design
Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965)
Whatever the progress of human knowledge, there will always be room for ignorance, hence for chance and probability.
Emile Borel (1871 - 1956)
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.
Madeline L'Engle (1918-2007)
There is no such thing as no chance.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Indeed, the laws of chance are just as necessary as the causal laws themselves.
David J. Bohm (1917 - 1992)
Everyone believes in the normal law, the experimenters because they imagine that it is a mathematical theorem, and the mathematicians because they think it is an experimental fact. J.F. Gabriel Lippmann (1845 - 1921)
Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination.
Robert E. Machol (1917 - 1998)
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841 - 1935)
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.
Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879)