" Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities---that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration. "

― Edgar Allan Poe , The Murders in the Rue Morgue - a C. Auguste Dupin Short Story (C. Auguste Dupin #1)