What examples of learning by \"happy accident\" or just by chancehave you experienced in your own life?
What do you think it means for a person (especially a scientist)to have a \"prepared mind,\" as Pasteur describes?
How can a person prepare his or her mind to be open to chancewithin a particular discipline? What roles might education, jobexperience, and life experience play in creating a preparedmind?
Often researchers must try many things that don't work beforethey find the hypothesis that really explains what is going on.This expectation of failure probably does not sit well with fundingagencies or the public. How could this important part of thescientific method be explained to the public so that it is betteraccepted?
