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quotes by topic coincidence

" The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe. "

define , coincidence

" For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. "

Chance , coincidence

" A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That‚Äôs what I like about coincidence. "

Vladimir Nabokov

Humor , coincidence

" Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions. "

Chance , coincidence

" What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! "

Charles Dickens

Fate , coincidence