Faculty of making discoveries by accident Serendipity has been recently used in connection with Internet, since the large quantity of information available provides chances to find unexpected relevant information while surfing the web In Science one speaks about serendipity when the discovery is made by reasons alien to the established research experiments For example the discovery of penicillin The coinage of the term is attributed to the British writer Horace Walpole from a Persian tale "The Three Princes of Serendip" where the heroes make discoveries accidentally
The discovery of something by accident while investigating something quite different. For example, finding a biological culture "ruined" by mould, and discovering the antibiotic penicillin as a consequence
The ability to gain knowledge from accidental events Many famous new products have been discovered accidentally, but many potential discoveries were overlooked because the observer was not serendipitous (having a prepared mind)
''The gift of making delightful discoveries by pure accident'' In hypertext navigation, the original goal sometimes becomes irrelevant or is forgotten over the current dominance of a new piece of information encountered in the browsing process This is called the serendipity effect
Serendipity is the luck some people have in finding or creating interesting or valuable things by chance. Some of the best effects in my garden have been the result of serendipity. when interesting or valuable discoveries are made by accident luck (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)