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The Power of Accidental Discoveries
schmiddy writes "An article from Wired mentions the surprising number of discoveries that have been made entirely by accident. In an older article, The Discovery Channel's site points out a different subset of inventions that happened by accident. A much older article from PBS goes into more depth on the subject of accidental discoveries, and gives a great quote from physicist Joseph Henry: 'The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.'"
Most of the best food combinations were discovered by accident too..
mmm.. peanut butter & bananas.
Sheer irony that their inventor was named Crum. You can't eat just one, but you never seem to be able to eat the whole thing either. How cruel.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
A quote I once heard; Most scientific discoveries don't start with 'eureka', they start from 'hmm... thats odd'.
No, it wasn't forgotten, it was in the first article. Oh wait, I read the article, I must be new here.
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
- Bob Ross
My guess is that the first accident induced invention was underwear.
Be relentless!