Newton's deterministic machine was replaced by a shadowy and paradoxical conjunction of waves and particles, governed by the laws of chance, rather than the rigid rules of causality.
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This is less a case of Murphy's Law than the Law of Chance, which states if you're going to play quarterback for UCLA, there's a good chance you're going to get hurt.
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Drawing on the ideas of Democritus and the Atomists, he espoused a materialistic philosophy according to which the universe was governed by the laws of chance without the need for divine intervention ( see scientific determinism ).
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Science writers Martin Gardner and Terence Hines and the philosopher Theodore Schick have written that if psychokinesis were possible, one would expect casino incomes to be affected, but the earnings are exactly as the laws of chance predict.
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Simpson's treatise entitled " The Nature and Laws of Chance " and " The Doctrine of Annuities and Reversions " were based on the work of De Moivre and were attempts at making the same material more brief and understandable.
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Director Robert Wise suggests that we all share a collective dark side, that one way or another we are all'born to kill,'and in the final throw of the dice, only the incontrovertible laws of chance can set the record straight ."
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Simpson stated this clearly in " The Nature and Laws of Chance ", referring to De Moivre's Doctroine of Chances : " tho'it neither wants Matter nor Elegance to recommend it, yet the Price must, I am sensible, have put it out of the Power of many to purchase it ".
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"The saturation of information in the computer web, often read from an optimism which is heir to the optimism of progress, does not improve, nor transform the human condition, created without purpose by evolution's laws of chance : tied to the imperious demands of primary instincts against which the retaining walls of social rules are erected ."
