Scientific discovery
It is extremely common to set out expecting to discover one thing and instead to discover another (e.g. Fleming, Jansky, Kamerlingh Onnes, and innumerable others). This is so common that it even has a name: serendipity. Serendipity is not blind luck. It is the opposite of blind luck; it is the kind of luck that you earn by being smart and keeping your eyes open. [1]
After a scientific discovery has been made the difficulty is to have it properly interpreted and adopted.[1] It is the responsibility of serious scientists making an historically important claim to publish their evidence. A scientific paper making a historically important claim on new scientific discovery must include its central argument, together with the data that support it. These requirements are matter of principle at scientific journals.[2]
References
- ↑ Irving Wallace (1965). The Sunday Gentleman. “...the difficulty is less in discovering than in having discoveries understood and adopted.”
- ↑ David Berlinski (2009). "A scientific scandal? David Berlinski & Critics", The Deniable Darwin. Seattle, USA: Discovery Institute Press (reprinted from Commentary February 1998 by permission), 414-415. ISBN 978-0-9790141-2-3.
