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Chance determines our lives in important ways.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

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.

Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.

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

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.