Arthur Eddington Quotes

The Universe is never conspiring against anyone.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

It's fascinating how life works.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

Everything is destined, I believe... People you meet and end up marrying.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

Anything that happens, happens.

Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.