Which is the most important serendipitous discoveries/inventions of scientific history? Name one.
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ANSWERS: 12
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I vote for the wheel. Without a shadow of a doubt.
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Without a doubt, E=MC2.
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Alexander Graham Bell = The Telephone! The phone allows us to do so much oh yeah and of course the internet!
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Fire. Not just it's discovery, but also it's manipulation.
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Fire
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Penicillin it has led to so many other antibiotics.
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Electricity - learning to use it opened up worlds of possibility.
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language
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penicilin
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weed
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weed
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Fire was indeed serendipitous. Language isn't so much a discovery as an invention. The taming of electricity in the 18th century was important, but not so serendipitous. The Telephone included a serendipitous discovery. Penicillin was indeed serendipitous. Einstein's insights were well earned, not serendipitous. The Vulcanizaton process for rubber was serendipitous. Several of the first plastics were, too. And of course, Science insists that life itself is serendipitous.
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