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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 plan for in a sense. i do not think dr. whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.

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Many Of The Things That Have Happened

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 plan for in a sense. i do not think dr. whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.

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[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" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. when you do things in that way you get unexpected results. then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.

I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - i've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where i mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. i mean, not deliberately - i'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

If i have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. you divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants. you can attack deliberately combatants, but not deliberately noncombatants. israel acts that way. it attacks combatants and accidentally kills noncombatants. but in the case of the terrorists, it's the exact opposite. they deliberately attack combatants - noncombatants, civilians, deliberately.

One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. as important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. i'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons i turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. in a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. the real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. one could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. the embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. in the east art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the west the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of god.

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