Chance Discoveries Quotes

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

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

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.