Jeff Bezos Quotes

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We especially need imagination in science.