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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (17960)	7/11/2001 12:19:14 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

in science it's mostly bumbling that finds things I think that this would surprise even the pure researchers at (say) MIT, Cambridge or Stanford, never mind those at Intel, GlaxoWellcome or Sony... Even in my scientific education - which stopped at degree level - I don't recall 'bumbling around' being either recommended or particularly successful. Not that serendipity has no part to play, but I think a firm grounding in the disciplines of the science, diligent research and experimentation, and the requirement for reproducible results have rather more part. Luck may play a part in the formation of entirely new fields, I assume you're thinking of the discovery of antibiotics, but it still takes understanding and knowledge of what has gone before to realise what is happening and why; and insight to realise how it can be harnessed. Would you say it was 'bumbling' that caused Galileo to point his telescope at the planets, or that the silicon chip was 'accidentally discovered'?