Brilliance

You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!


—Richard Feynman, as quoted by D.L. Goodstein in his forward to vol. II of the Feynman Lectures in Physics