Randomness Quotes

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer

Nature, Creativity, Order

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier

Life, Seems, Pure

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.
John Polkinghorne

Mean, Chance, Rather

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
Jeffrey Kluger

Fear, Suffering, Between

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.
Michael Koryta

Understand, Makes, Feels

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.
Catherine McCormack

Put, Listen, Radio

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
Michael Polanyi

Example, Principle, Entropy

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
Barry Hannah

Love, Pain, Joy

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