“It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.”
“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”
“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”
“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”
“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.”
“We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.”