Serendipity (N)
What is serendipity?
It is faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident.
E.g. Galileo saw an oil-lamp swinging in the air above him. What he perceived was that the pendulum of the change was taking exactly the same time for every oscillation; although the length of the oscillations was constantly reducing. When he got home, Galileo worked out in detail the intricacies of this kind of motion. Today this finds application in the counting of the human pulse, solar eclipses, and the movement of stars.
- A.N.Kothare
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