Serendipity Quotes

104 quotes by 94 authors

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. — Franklin P. Adams
There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. — Jeff Bezos
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try… — Condoleezza Rice
There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand. — Philip Guston
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of… — Paul Cezanne
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. — Georges Braque
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event. — Georges Braque
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. — Maya Lin
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. — Amedeo Modigliani
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a… — Ansel Adams
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
...maximize the serendipity around you. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and… — Oprah Winfrey
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"… — Irving Langmuir
Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to… — Irving Langmuir
I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk. — Joan Erikson
Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself. — Anne Jackson
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he… — Yves Klein

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