Lets Go back To Genes
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Serendipity:When my chance will come?"Serendipity :Science calls chance discoveries "serendipity,"- because of a 1754 story by English writer Horace Walpole, "The Three Princes of Serendip," (Serendip is the old Persian name of Sri Lanka) who kept discovering things they were not seeking. This word serendipity has been voted as one of the ten of English words that were harder to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company U will be prompted to ask , what’s great in that? Even I keep finding things at times and places when I was not looking for them, It’s a matter of chance that even you can land up as being a great discoverer .So never curse your luck, when u get something ,some result which was unexpected. “Serendipity means when fortune knocks at your door at an unexpected time, you have to be ready to receive her” · Phonograph · Discovery Of Electromagnetic Fields · The Discovery Of How Rubella Leads To Congenital Defects · Fermi's (Non)-Discovery Of Nuclear Fission · Discovery Of Current Electricity · Cure Of Diabetes · Discovery Of X-Ray · Safety Glass · The Blunder That Founded 3M · Discovery Of Teflon · How Typhus Gets Transmitted · Proof Of The Big Bang · Vulcanisation Process · Structure Of The Crystals · 3M's Post-It Note Pads · Principle Of Immunisation Be it Aleaxander Flemming’s discovery of penicillin, the invention of Post it Notes, Alfred Nobel’s discovery of Blasting gelatin, the discovery of Polyethylene, the discovery of psychedelic , effects of LSD by Albert Hofmann , the discovery of Cosmic microwave background radiation, all are gifts of serendipity ……………………. And the list is endless. But can one conclude that creative discoveries are accidental by nature? Not really. In all these cases, the mishap could have been dismissed as inconsequential, as was done by many scientists in the cases of X-Rays and the radio "noises" which proved the Big Bang theory. Similarly, Fermi failed to see the significance of his accidental discovery, because he refused to believe what he saw. The accidents became a source of discovery and innovation, because these people were willing to look at them as meaningful occurrences. Newton, after all, was not the first person who saw an apple falling off the tree. As Pasteur remarked: "Chance favours the prepared mind."
