cladking wrote

>" The first is when accidents happen to good observers especially when they are well trained and knowledgeable enough to spot it."

So when a man like Thomas Edison experiments something like 6,000 different alloys seeking a light bulb, and after 6,000 failures finds one, it was an accident?
He got LUCKY?

Nay, nay I say. He ground out one trial at a time until he succeeded.

The ONE path of science your answer ignored.

Good example though;

Insight, intuitive leaps, understood gravity, grinding routine trials invented the light bulb.

Which do you take advantage of more?

Jammer