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“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.”

Chance Results Design Flow Access

Author:Adrian Bejan

“Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.”

Men May Action Chance Effects Design Boast

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.”

Men Giving Hands Chance Design Stones Providence Rude Sculptors Mould

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.”

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Book:Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences

Source: Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences

“In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.”

Thinking Believe Looks Reason Facts Past Beautiful Religious Chance Design Months Tests Intelligent Complexes Believe In God Professors Fossils Intricate Creationism Intelligent Design

Author:Stewart Lee