Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.
Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.
Discoveries aren't made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren't made overnight. People don't see the thousands of hours that go into it.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
The great discoveries are usually obvious.