107 Quotes About Serendipity

Serendipity. The ability to see opportunity when it slaps you in the face and smart enough not to turn the other cheek.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.