I saw this: (Gelfand's prophecy:) Sporadic simple groups are not groups, they are objects from a still unknown infinite family, some number of which happened t

I saw this: (Gelfand's prophecy:) Sporadic simple groups are not groups, they are objects from a still unknown infinite family, some number of which happened to be groups, just by chance. ...first here: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/09/mathematical_kinds.html http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/09/mathematical_kin... It's stayed with me ever since.