#coincide

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences. Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will, and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the very tool used by Fate to shape the destiny of men and nations. Observe it now at work in the affairs of Captain Blood and of some others. ↗

— Rafael Sabatini

#art

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design. ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#chance #coincidenc-e #fine-tuning #id #intelligent-design

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #consciousness #darwinism #evolution

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle. ↗

— Michael Denton

#biology #chance #chemical-evolution #coincidence #id

Coincidences mean you're on the right path. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#destiny #fate #right-path #love

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#alice #back #bands #coincidence #doing

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#amount #coincides #content #entire #exactly

Coincidences are spiritual puns. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#puns #spiritual

- Не ме познахте май! - засмя се шофьорът на таксито. Тя го позна още в първия миг, но не можеше да повярва, че такъв човек съществува. Той бързаше, дори не влезе вътре. Колата го чакала долу с хора. Разказа на крак одисеята на романа. Намерил ръкописа чак в края на смяната си. Съобразил, че в тези страници е вложен доста труд главно от машинописката. Изправен пред невъзможността да ги занесе на притежателя, той се заел да издири адреса чрез семейството в Бояна, пред чиято вила бе запомнил, че е оставил една завеяна пътница. Разбира се, само по предположение, че може би измежду многобройните му и многолики клиенти тя е била злополучната авторка. А може след полунощ на заспиване да е попрочел някоя и друга глава от романа и да е отгатнал зад редовете силуета на една странна птица, неориентирана за посоките на града и света, изгубена и тъжна. И много смешна. Тя стоеше на прага, изумена и щастлива, не вече от връщането на ръкописа, а от самото откриване на такъв човек. И от нещо друго: в неговото младо, насмешливо лице тя позна чудесния Случай, който й подсказваше, че има смисъл героите й да продължат да живеят - може и на тях да се падне да пътуват с такси № 28-29 из София, карано от един млад, мълчалив по време на пътуването шофьор. Пожелавам живот. ↗

— Blaga Dimitrova

#life #life

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