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 first came upon the concept-and-term of serendipity in the 1930s in the Oxford English Dictionary. Here, he discovered that the word had been coined by Walpole. Merton revealed 1946 his concept of the “serendipity pattern” in empirical research, of observing an unanticipated, anomalous, and strategic datum, w
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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:
2024-09-12T08:07:58Z
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