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To: libstripper
Many of our greatest scientific discoveries have occurred by accident.

Quite so. One of the great talents a scientist or engineer must have is to recognize it when he has just discovered something important.

61 posted on 03/02/2015 10:56:26 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: NorthMountain

That’s where the “unknown unknowns” come in.


65 posted on 03/02/2015 11:29:55 AM PST by libstripper (")
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