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is a mere seeming, the result of intersecting causal lines.

Chance is a mere seeming, the result of intersecting causal lines' (Hacking 1990:12).

is a misnomer and nothing happens quite by chance. Chance is always a question of accretion of information and experience.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience . . . it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years. Jonas Salk

is a word void of sense... nothing can exist without a cause.

Chance is a word void of sense... nothing can exist without a cause. Voltaire

is more significant than logic in the invention of arts and sciences.

Men are rather beholden. generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. Francis Bacon

is non-existent. In the universe anything that happens comes from the essential nature of objects, or of God and nature.

All things in nature proceed from certain necessity and with the utmost perfection'. Therefore, no things happen by chance in Spinoza's world, and reason does not work in terms of contingency. In the universe anything that happens comes from the essential nature of objects, or of God and nature. Perfection therefore abounds according to Spinoza' (NET)

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen' Chance favors only the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur)

 makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 brings to light the latent properties in man.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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