A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
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“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
“A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.”
“So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.”
“This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.”
“The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.”
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”
“In 1978, I had a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas. There was a point when I could have lost my right arm - but it was good because it forced me to slow down and take a break.”
“What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.”
“Labour's disastrous legacy and the Conservative success did not happen by accident: it was about the choices each party made, choices that impact on everyone.”
“I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long before his accident, a couple years before. He loved working with Merchant Ivory.”
“I didn't get to the Senate by accident.”
“I was on my way to fetch my little sister from school when I met with an accident. A bike which was at a very high speed ran over my leg while I was crossing the road. My leg was so badly fractured that it took me almost seven months to be able to stand on my legs again.”