So, I think science can be serendipity is important.

Or is it a kind of serendipity that we cannot explain, like the cosmological constant?

And when you improve searchability, you actually take away the one advantage of print, which is serendipity.

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

You think there's a sort of coincidence going on, a serendipity, in which you're getting all this help from the universe.

We need to look at ways of creating serendipity, of making translation pervasive, and we need to find ways to embrace and celebrate these bridge figures.

That Obama would indeed call for Manning's release just days after the book went public was a welcome sort of serendipity after seven brutal years at a military prison in Kansas.

But I do think there's a kind of serendipity, and I do want to know what those elements are, so I can thank them, and also try to find them in my life.

But if what you're looking for is serendipity, if you want to stumble onto something that you didn't know you needed, our main philosophy is to look to our social networks, to look for our friends.

This is a beautiful quote that I found we're talking about serendipity there from Alexander Fleming When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic.

Funding agencies for academic research should adopt a similar philosophy, awarding a certain share of financing to thoughtful, unconventional proposals those deemed risky, owing to a relatively low probability of success, but that could lead to important discoveries. Such a scheme would create opportunities to take advantage of serendipity a major component of scientific discovery.