Serendipity Quotes - Page 6

• The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.

  William A. Dembski

  Survival, Meat, Robots

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• When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

  Steven Pressfield

  Unseen, Purpose, Causes

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

  Eleanor Clift

  People, Pool, Process

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• Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Work, Bmw, Luck

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• Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

  Alan Alda

  Discovery

  "Alan Alda's Human Spark, Part 2". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. January 08, 2010.

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• What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Reality, Race, Looks

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• I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

  Pete Wentz

  Soccer, Play, Different

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