Unplanned Discoveries Quotes

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.

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

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

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.