The first half of the book was very interesting | |
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Serendipity discovery does favor the prepared mind; you have to be alert to "see" significance when an experiment seems to "fail" | For a chemist, maybe the accidental discovery by a few wacky chemists playing around in a lab and by happenstance breaking a double nitrogen bond is riveting reading, but for the general reader, it was too much |
In the middle, the author spent a bit too much time in his area of expertise, chemistry.
22The discovery of penicillin, however, was serendipitous because it was recognized for its antibiotic properties immediately | |
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And we owe a debt to accident for some of our deepest scientific knowledge, including Newton's theory of gravitation, the Big Bang theory of Creation, and the discovery of DNA | Chance favours the prepared mind |
It is actually good if you're interested in scientific discoveries especially in the chemical field.
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