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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (152916)1/23/2009 3:10:50 PM
From: one_less1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
"many, many scientific facts are first learned from empirical experiment or serendipity. A rather high percentage of inventions are serendipitous..."

Sorry if an idea isn't present in the mind of the scientist such discoveries would not occur.

"And btw, your daughter was trying to con you."

You could not conclude that if you followed the details of the account, and represented the facts genuinely as they were presented. But then, that would have been a first.