Dang... I'm glad that we didn't have to wait for excellent science to
theoretically predict penicillin for us.
At 12:51 PM 3/29/01 +1000, you wrote:
>
>>>Is it really
>>>worth trying to belittle what should turn out to be excellent science?
>>
>>A serendipity case. Once more. Where is excellency exactlly,
>>according to you ? I repeat that excellency would be to produce
>>a theory which would have allowed to predict the MgB2
>>superconductor properties. Then, the need for chance in order
>>to disclose it would have been unnecessary.
>
>"Chance favours the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur ???
>
>but
>
> "Non est ars quae ad effectum casu venit"
> (That which achieves its effect by accident is not art)
> Seneca, the Younger (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
>
>Though if serendipity was not allowed in science?
>
>Lachlan.
>
>Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
>Geochemistry - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
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