#coincidences

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence. ↗

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Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. ↗

— James Payn

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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

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In Jewish history there are no coincidences. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#history #jewish

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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Coincidences are spiritual puns. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#puns #spiritual

Is it possible that there are no coincidences? ↗