“We are born by accident into a purely random universe.”
Source: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 1, (p. 1; opening words)
“Nothing is accidental in the universe — this is one of my Laws of Physics — except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity. So it cannot be an accident that I think of you so constantly.”
"The Summing Up: Meredith Dawe," Do What You Will (1970)
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