PROJECTS: Amateur Scientist
Oops! There It Is
Serendipity
is the origin
of many
inventions and
discoveries
Written by Forrest M. Mims III
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Professor Alexander
Fleming at work in his
laboratory at St. Mary’s
Hospital, London, where he
discovered penicillin in 1928.
A
If you’re like most makers, you’ve probably
made many changes and even mistakes
while working on a new project. And you’ve
probably learned so much from those unplanned
happenings that your project was significantly
improved. If this seems familiar, then you have
experienced serendipity, one of the most powerful
invention and discovery tools.
Serendipity is defined by the Macmillan
Dictionary as “the fact of finding pleasant or
useful things by chance.” To this could be added
that serendipity is responsible for some of
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