Randomness Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Randomness.
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“Probability”
“Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.”
“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.”
“How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?”
“Wikipedia: Randomness”
“Quand une regle est fort composée, ce qui luy est conforme, passe pour irrégulier.”
“Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”
“The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.”
“While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.”
“Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance.”
“Randomness is a very, very subtle concept with its study properly belonging to statisticians more than mathematicians.”
“Events may appear to us to be random, but this could be attributed to human ignorance about the details of the processes involved.”
“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe — in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance.”
“Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.”
“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 convinced that He does not throw dice.”
“For I do not believe that it is through the interference of Divine Providence … that the spittle of a certain person moved, fell on a certain gnat in a certain place, and killed it.”
“The fact that randomness requires a physical rather than a mathematical source is noted by almost everyone who writes on the subject, and yet the oddity of this situation is not much remarked.”
“Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word.”
“A random sequence is a vague notion in which each term is unpredictable to the uninitiated and whose digits pass a certain number of tests traditional with statisticians and depending somewhat on the uses to which the sequence is to be put.”