Best phrase that anticipates a new discovery is not "Eureka!" but "Wow, cool!"
Throughout the history of science, many discoveries have been made by accident. Sometimes the researcher saw the potential in a completely irrelevant things, or even in the remnants of a failed experiment, making a mistake a manifestation of intuition. Other discoveries took place after a period of despair that engulfed the scientist following a failed experiment. As a result of an error or "unfortunate" coincidence of circumstances, there appeared not a single discovery, but a large set of findings, ideas and discoveries in various fields of science
Penicillin. The penicillin was discovered in 1928. The author of the accidental invention was Alexander Fleming, who, at the time, ...