The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth. Everybody who looks at the spectacle of modern algebra will be struck by this complementarity of freedom and necessity. (Quote by - Hermann Weyl)

Experiment by applying a few strokes suggesting it [the subject] and see what happens... develop the piece from interesting accidents. (Quote by - Jean-Francis Le Saint)

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as the trees and the animals do. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. This is an accident of hourly proof, Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!(Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - the best brain. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment . (Quote by - Frederick von Schiller)

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone. (Quote by - Robert Rauschenberg)

What at first seems accidental is really "controlled looseness." Unity is always a top priority and is important for the success of a painting. (Quote by - Carlton Plummer)

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it. (Quote by - Norman Lear)

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant . (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident . (Quote by - Sidney Lumet)

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. (Quote by - Nick Bantock)

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. (Quote by - Nathaniel Borenstein)