#serendipity

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk."

"Our hearts speak the same language but more importantly our souls share the same voice."

"It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for."

"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."