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... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...


Eric Chaisson


#determinism #nature #necessity #randomness #age

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.


Eric Chaisson


#determinism #nature #necessity #randomness #age

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.


Eric Chaisson


#determinism #evolution #planet #solar-system #age

Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#determinism #freedom #positive #freedom

My destiny plays with me in such a way I feel I play with my destiny.


Vivake Pathak


#destiny #determinism #fate #free-will #freedom

...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the window?' I shall answer him, no; that whilst he preserves his reason there is no probability that the desire of proving his free agency, will become a motive sufficiently powerful to make him sacrifice his life to the attempt: if, notwithstanding this, to prove he is a free agent, he should actually precipitate himself from the window, it would not be a sufficient warranty to conclude he acted freely, but rather that it was the violence of his temperament which spurred him on to this folly. Madness is a state, that depends upon the heat of the blood, not upon the will. A fanatic or a hero, braves death as necessarily as a more phlegmatic man or a coward flies from it.


Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach


#free-will #madness #mental-illness #death

We all are characters in a movie.


Vivake Pathak


#determinism #fate #movies

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.


Terry Eagleton


#apathy #apolitical #determinism #historical-determinism #history

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.


Ulysses S. Grant


#determinism #freedom #will #freedom

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.


Arthur Eddington


#because #deals #determinism #impossible #into






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