Quotes About Serendipity

Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities--

Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur said

Luck favors the prepared," Pasteur

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

our successes depend on randomness).

positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them. Many people do not realize that they are getting a lucky break in life when they get it. If

If you think that the inventions we see around us came from someone sitting in a cubicle and concocting them according to a timetable, think again: almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity.

This same point can be generalized to life: maximize the serendipity around you.

we have a tendency to underestimate the role of randomness in human affairs

though we play down the role of chance, especially when it comes to our own discoveries.

or it can be just plain randomness, nothing else.

otherwise the odds would be too low to get here just by luck.

Luck favors the prepared

Accidentul pozitiv (ca în cazul medicamentului pentru hipertensiune care a produs beneficii colaterale ce au condus apoi la Viagra) a reprezentat metoda central? a empiriÈ™tilor în descoperirea medical?. AceeaÈ™i idee poate fi generalizat? în cazul vieÈ›ii: profitaÈ›i la maxim de întâmpl?rile fericite din jur.

chance favors the prepared

Remember that positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them.

A person can get slightly ahead for entirely random reasons;

With respect to Black Swans, you act to protect yourself from negative ones (or expose yourself to positive ones) even though you may have no evidence that they can take place

We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world...until we are sure of foot.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

The harder you scrutinize randomness, Faraday declared, the more coincidence seems like a design.

The harder you scrutinize randomness, the more coincidence seems like design.

if I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this.

but what can I make of love when we are all born at a different time and place and only meet through a trick of centuries and a chance three steps to the left? you