Serendipity

2 pages on this site touch on this topic.

• Fleming, the mould, and the myth of instant discovery — Penicillin really was found by accident in 1928 — but the popular story skips the decade it spent forgotten, and the team that actually turned it into medicine.
• Serendipity — A chance observation or accident that leads, through a real subsequent chain of insight and effort, to a valuable discovery.