 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
"Chance" decides whether an expected child turns out to be a boy or a girl, and "chance" decides which of the hereditary possibilities that Mendelian principles allow will be realized. But when we deal with large groups, "chance" no longer decides: ... In this sense I should regard the birth of Napoleon as a "chance" event. We do not know why a man of supreme military genius was born in Corsica at that time.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Reply to Criticism, 1944. In: The Philsophy of Bertrand Russell, pp.p.681-741.
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