Across Quote by Ethan Zuckerman

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience,…

— Adrian Bejan

“When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Serendipity happens when a well-trained…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define…

— Irving Langmuir

Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles…

— Jonathon Keats

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open,

— Jose Manuel Barroso

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

— Emanuel Ax

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

— Charles Traub

What possibilities exist here? What is presenting itself to me IN THIS MOMENT that I can use? In a very real sense, it's meditation…

— Tom Bergeron

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

— Branch Rickey

Any opportunity that is backed with effort and intelligence is what is known as LUCK.

— Kemmy Nola

The concept of luck is very straightforward. Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

— Richard Wiseman

When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a…

— Lewis Wolpert