Serendipity

“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”

“"Serendipity is the gift of finding the things we did not know we were looking for" w:pt:Glauco Ortolano as quoted in Humaniqueness: The Gift of you Inner God, p 56.”

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny."”

“Sindbad the Sailor had no quarrel with the caliph's project, though he'd never before set sail with any motive nobler than restless greed. As he knew from hard experience, however — and will presently declare to his dinner guests, at the end of their monthlong fast — you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings… serendipitously.”

“Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.”

“Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.”

“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.”

“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.”

“It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.”

“We owe to an eighteenth century Persian poet the marvelous concept of "serendipity." It is a word born in the delightful Persian tale entitled "The Three Princes of Serendip." Webster's Dictionary defines "serendipity" as the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable things not sought for." It represents a type of "accidental sagacity; the faculty of making fortunate discoveries of things you were not looking for."”

“Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.”

“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”

“In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.”

“Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one — all red.”