Coincidence Quotes

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It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidence

It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

Life Beauty Man Rights Coincidence

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare

Jealousy Pessimism Coincidence

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scien

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the chance-of-the-gaps fallacy. Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

William A. Dembski

Chance Science Evolution Ignorance Supernatural Coincidence Biology Darwinism Serendipity God Of The Gaps

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to

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

Chance Belief Chaos Coincidence

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so grea

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.

Chance Naturalism Intelligent Design Coincidence Biology Abiogenesis Chemical Evolution Id Irreducible Complexity Living Cells

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I m

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

Life Love Places Coincidence

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the wor

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Inspirational Luck Quote The Alchemist Coincidence

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet dis

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.

Orson Scott Card

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Albert Einstein

God Religion Coincidence

His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing

His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of people in this world, she had told him, and the spirits will see that most of them, you never have to meet. But there are one or two that you are tied to, and spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.

Stars Coincidence Grandmother

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

Arthur Koestler

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshi

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