Serendipity

Serendipity is a distinctive type of inductive discovery. Robert Stebbins defines it as the quintessential form of informal experimentation, accidental discovery, and spontaneous invention. Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber observe that serendipity can either refer to finding ...

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