"How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?"

"He who believes this (atomism) may as well believe that if a great quantity of the one-and-twenty letters, composed e…"

"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."

"The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the 'old one'. I, at any rate, am con…"

"Events may appear to us to be random, but this could be attributed to human ignorance about the details of the proces…"

"Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world…"

"Randomness is a very, very subtle concept with its study properly belonging to statisticians more than mathematicians."

"Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance."

"The fact that randomness requires a physical rather than a mathematical source is noted by almost everyone who writes…"

"Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe — in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain…"