
“the freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.”
Book I, 1.84-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
"Fitter Happier"
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)
“the freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.”
Book I, 1.84-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)
Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985).
“My daughter gave me the chance to be more mature and live a better life after 20 years.”
Los Angeles Daily News (October 16, 2014)
“Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.”
Source: The Man Who Folded Himself (1973), p. 109
“No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”
Sec. 624, as translated by Tobias Dantzig in Number, the Language of Science. Fourth edition, New York: Doubleday 1954, p 141. See discussion of this entry for details.
The Will to Power (1888)
“Before you can escape from your burrow you must know you are trapped. Then there's a chance.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)