people believe in the "balancing force of the universe
people believe in the "balancing force of the universe." This is the gambler's fallacy. However, with independent events, there is no harmonizing force at work: A ball cannot remember how many times it has landed on black.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
In the book
Clusters of unlucky events happen by pure chance, and merely understanding that toughens you against them. We are forever inventing a "balancing force of the universe" — the gambler's certainty that a run of bad luck must now be due to turn — but with independent events there is no such force; the coin does not remember how it last landed. We trust tiny samples as if they were laws, when a handful of tosses is no law at all, whatever we pretend. — Takeoff Into Chaos