"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."

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"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."

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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

Kent Nerburn, American Author

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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Chance is a name for our ignorance."

Leslie Stephen, English Author

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"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe."

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"So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world."

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"At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered."

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"Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story."

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"I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science."

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"Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like."

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"I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years."

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"If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that."

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