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This page lists quotations about randomness in the context ofscience, art and human existence in general.Within each category,the quotations appear sorted by author names.

If you know aquotation about randomness that you think belongs on this page, drop us an email!Science and TechnologyThe generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tellsme that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, butdoes not really bring us any closer to the secret of the‘old one.’ I, at any rate, am convinced that He doesnot throw dice.Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.Art and CreativityCreativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.Life and Human ExistenceThe world is governed by chance.Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you haveto be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauertalked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparentintention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed lateron. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe thisrambling life has some through-line. Others can see it bettersometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it moreclearly than anyone.So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!To dare every day to be irreverent and bold. To dare to preservethe randomness of mind which in children produces strange andwonderful new thoughts and forms. To continually scramble thefamiliar and bring the old into new juxtaposition.