Serendipity
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title:
Serendipity
text:
Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. In 1754 Horace Walpole coined the word and described an amazing discovery as being “of that kind which I call Serendipity.” Robert K. Merton describes it as „the discovery through chance by a theoretically prepared mind of valid findings which were not sought for“ Merton revealed 1946 his concept of the “serendipity pattern” in empirical research, of observing an unanticipated, anomalous, and strategic datum, which becomes the occasion for develop
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Unplanned, fortunate discovery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
date created:
2001-05-10T16:18:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T06:09:46Z
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