Quotes by Fortuitous To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. Oliver Goldsmith fortuitous convenience pleasure I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought. Stephen Jay Gould fortuitous cosmic atheism
