“In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.” WarProblemLawCoursesForceChanceEnemyPlansMilitaryFitCircumstancesMetsSurvivalOvercomingAccountsPracticalsAlternativesOpposingAdaptabilityObstruction Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.” MayChanceAccountsBreathsRaisesEsteemReputation Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.” PeopleWorldWantYearsMindKindStatesCharacterAbleCertainChanceViewsVisionCreativityShareMetsAccountsPoeticState Of MindGesturesEvidentFascinationVisionariesParanoiaParanoid Author:Louis Simpson
“Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.” DifferencesChanceAmountAccountsMereSpeciesVarietyHabitualOrigin Of Species Book:Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies
“Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.” KindDifferentMatterScienceUniverseDifferencesChanceAccountsDifferent Kinds Author:Stephen Hawking
“Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.” ScienceChanceKnownKnowledgeNiceAccountsMethodDuesExperimentsInventionSettingSettingsNew Work Book:The works Source: The works
“I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.” WorldWayNeedsBelieveWarEndsGovernmentChanceSecurityPossibilityAccountsLifetimeReasonableJapanAlliesEnd Of The WorldMenace Author:Winston Churchill