Ivars Peterson: Quotes about a chance

Ivars Peterson is Canadian mathematician. Explore interesting quotes on chance.
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“Randomness, chaos, uncertainty, and chance are all a part of our lives. They reside at the ill-defined boundaries between what we know, what we can know, and what is beyond our knowing. They make life interesting.”

Ivars Peterson

Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 10, “Lifetimes of Chance” (p. 202)

Life , Chance , Making love , Parting

“The aim of science is to reduce the scope of chance.”

Ivars Peterson

Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 10, “Lifetimes of Chance” (p. 201; quoting Hegel)

Science , Chance

“Most coincidences are simply chance events that turn out to be far more probable than many people imagine.”

Ivars Peterson

Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 10, “Lifetimes of Chance” (p. 188)

Chance , Imagination , People