Quotes about Randomness

We are at a time when postmodernism defies certainty, truth, and meaning; when spiritualism dabbles in quantum theory; and when randomness has become the order of the day. Isn't it ironic that at the same time, the world is on the edge of financial bankruptcy because we have conducted our financial affairs in a random fashion, as if there are no absolutes?

To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn't have that much faith.

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Randomness, luck, chance, fate. This is modern man's answer to the age-old question, "Why?

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Events do not reflect God's choices. They happen at random, and randomness is another name for chaos… And chaos is evil; not wrong, not malevolent, but evil nonetheless.

Everything in life is luck.