serendipity• To a large extent, luck and serendipity made us the kind of scientists we are, and brought us together.• Call it the ultimateadvertisingcoup or simpleserendipity.• Far from portraying the scientists as all-knowing seers, Hafner and Lyon show how their biggest advances came through serendipity.• Our lives had been turned over to serendipity.• What a delightful find - a trueserendipity!
Originserendipity
(1700-1800)Serendip ancient name of Sri Lanka; because it was an ability possessed by the main characters in the old Persian story The Three Princes of Serendip