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Scientists themselves in the 19th and 20th century acknowledged the role of fortunate luck or serendipity in discoveries. [3] Psychologist Alan A. Baumeister says a scientist must be "sagacious" (attentive and clever) to benefit from an accident. [4] Dunbar quotes Louis Pasteur's saying that "Chance favors only the prepared mind". The prepared ...
Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. [1] The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. The concept is often associated with scientific and technological breakthroughs, where accidental discoveries led to new insights or inventions.
He wrote Serendipity after retiring from a professorship at the University of Texas. [4] His other works include a textbook, Introduction to Modern Experimental Organic Chemistry, and a 1994 children's book co-authored with his daughter Jeanie, Lucky Science: Accidental Discoveries From Gravity to Velcro, with Experiments. [4] [5] He died in ...
Luck. Fate. Blessing. A glitch in the matrix. Or, if you’re more skeptical, just a coincidence.. It’s a phenomenon that, from a statistical perspective, is random and meaningless.
Luck in games involving chance is defined as the change in a player's equity after a random event such as a die roll or card draw. [13] Luck is positive (good luck) if the player's position is improved and negative (bad luck) if it is worsened. A poker player who is doing well (playing successfully, winning) is said to be "running good". [14]
Scientists themselves in the 19th and 20th century acknowledged the role of fortunate luck or serendipity in discoveries. [10] Louis Pasteur is credited with the famous saying that "Luck favours the prepared mind", but some psychologists have begun to study what it means to be 'prepared for luck' in the scientific context. Research is showing ...
The concept of "serendipity" is a good English approximation of yuanfen in general situations not involving any elements of a romantic relationship. The French writer Émile Deschamps claims in his memoirs that in 1805, he was treated to some plum pudding by a stranger named Monsieur de Fontgibu.
The story has become known in the English-speaking world as the source of the word serendipity, coined by Horace Walpole because of his recollection of the part of the "silly fairy tale" in which the three princes by "accidents and sagacity" discern the nature of a lost camel. [6]