#coincide

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#chains-of-events #commonplaces-of-existence #cross-purposes #fiction #on-fiction

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous. ↗

— Laura Pedersen

#fate #god #religion #religion

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else. ↗

— John Green

#chance #chaos #coincidence #chance

Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#simile

Coincidences mean you're on the right path. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#destiny #fate #right-path #love

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#career #coincide #doing #get #good

Happiness is always a coincidence. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#coincidence #happiness

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#coincidence #essential #exaggeration #field #found

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#another #between #coincidences #describe #easily

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience