And what we saw yesterday was every reaction was fortuitous they just swooped in the air and bound, and something happened.

Even if fortuitous events lead to a better Middle East in another ten years, future historians will criticize the way Bush made his decisions and distributed the risks and costs of his actions.

And if you don't understand that in your mental model of this stuff, what happens inside of a cell seems completely mysterious and fortuitous, and I think that's exactly the wrong image for when you're trying to teach science.

In this case, the uneasiness derives from a fundamental uncertainty about which of the two faces of science, natural philosophy or instrumentality, represents its true character. 160 Is science really about understanding the world, with instrumentality being a matter of fortuitous spin offs?

America s desperate need for modern infrastructure has come, in some ways, at a fortuitous moment. At a time when the economic recovery remains fragile, a publicly financed infrastructure program could meaningfully transform the prospects of US workers, providing new employment opportunities for low and un skilled labor.