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“Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.”

Ifs Giving Should Running Chance Knowledge Genius Beats Guidance Foe Hollow Rockets Chances Are Explosives Gunpowder

Book:Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S

Source: Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S

“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.”

Science Chance Known Knowledge Nice Accounts Method Dues Experiments Invention Setting Settings New Work

Book:The works

Source: The works

“Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.”

Together Belief Chance Steps Knowledge Steps Forward

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?”

“Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.”

People Science Chance Knowledge Divine Cures Realization Healer

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.”

“Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man resorts to magic only where chance and circumstances are not fully controlled by knowledge.”

Men Long Science Easy Chance Knowledge Magic Circumstances Safe Safety Bounds Command Controlled Ritual Sailing Ceremony Resorts Expeditions Coastal

Author:Bronislaw Malinowski

“The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in no apparent order. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.”

Science Order Causes Chance Knowledge Ignorance Succeed Ignorant Observation Relative Probability

Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Chance Knowledge Learning Share Management Significant Iphone

Author:Steve Ballmer