Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were. - Murray Leinster

It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet...

It isn't reasonable!" insisted Holmes. "It doesn't make sense!" "The question," observed Burke, "isn't whether it makes sense, but whether it's fact.

My specialty is the mechanics of research. But I test my theories about how to make discoveries by using them to make discoveries.