Article about important scientific discoveries that were found by chance. ... Science has coined the phrase, "the Principle of Limited Sloppiness" to describe fortuitous or accidental discoveries such as these. Maybe their time has passed. Certainly, there is no place in, say, the space program for "limited sloppiness."
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Top 10 Accidental Inventions ... YouKnowMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like that LSD is number 2 of The Best: Accidental Discoveries ... Science more...
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Science's Top 10 Accidental Inventions ... Louis Pasteur once said, "chance favors the prepared mind." That's the genius behind all these accidental inventions - the scientists were prepared. They did their science on the brink and were able to see the magic in a mistake, set-back, or coincidence. ... Greatest Discoveries...
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Serendipity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something entirely unrelated. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words...
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Subject Heading: Discoveries in science-Juvenile fiction. ... Young readers will probably remember the human bits about scientists and their discoveries more readily than the actual scientific achievement. Hopefully, they will be motivated to learn more about science when it is presented as fun.
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Abstract: In contrast to a few pseudoserendipitous discoveries are the truly serendipitous discoveries: fortuitous accidents that led to new things totally unexpected and unsought for.^Any of these accidents could have gone ... the founding of the science of organic chemistry on a rational basis; ... ACCIDENTS-- INVENTIONS...
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Great Discoveries and Inventions. Mac Macaulay, David. Building Big. The Way Things Work. ... Lucky Science: Accidental Discoveries From Gravity To Velcro. 610.9 Cro Crook, Bette and Charles. Famous Firsts In Medicine. 629.133 Ber Berliner, Don. Unusual Airplanes. 658.3 Aas Aaseng, Nathan. Better Mousetraps.
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Serendipity contains a lot of information about different scientists, products, inventions, and important scientific events. Teachers and students in grades 11, 12, or OAC science can obtain numerous ideas for topics of scientific research papers. ... In Serendipity, however,, the unexpected results led to new discoveries,
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Royson M. Roberts. Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989. ... Roberts, R.M. 1989. Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
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