Famous quotes containing the words chance and/or operations:
“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)