‎Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident

Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.

It is merely a coincidence. When enough fiction is written and enough scientific hypotheses are proposed, sooner or later there will be accidental concordances.

Believing in accidents is like believing in miracles--both presuppose that God does not know the future.

Here we are at the antipode of automatism [invention from Surrealism] and mechanism, and no less distant from the cunning way of reason. In the action of the machine, in which everything is repeated and predetermined, accident is an abrupt negation.. .. [the] excess of ink flowing capriciously in thin black rivulets.. ..this line deflected by a sudden jar, this drop of water diluting a contour – all these are the sudden invasion of the unexpected in a world where it has a right to its proper place. [Motherwell is quoting here the comments of w:Henri Focillon on Japanese legends of 'accidentalism']

Somebody got lucky, but it was an accident.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

Why do many today try to convince themselves and others that God does not exist, even though they know perfectly well that not even the effort exercised by all scientists put together can bring to life a miserable mosquito? To affirm everything originates by pure, unexplainable chance is utter absurdity; as if one could think that a simple clock has been assembled, simply by chance, without the help of someone!

The cosmology of scientific materialism … considers the cosmos an absurd accident, and life within it to be no more than another accident.

He did not share the widespread present-day faith in astrology. It seemed likeliest to him that sheer accident ruled the world.

"God's only excuse is that He doesn't exist," remarked Voltaire after a natural disaster that killed many people. Nietzsche loved this quote and wished he'd coined it!

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

theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an “accident,” as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a “fact” because Newton asked certain questions.