Henri Poincare Quotes

Everybody believes in chance.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Much in our lives is chance.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Chance is a second master.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

There is always room for coincidence.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.