A strong drive to succeed and the ability to be in the right place at the right time may be common features of successful people. Despite the best efforts of scientists, some discoveries they make are the purely result of serendipity, an unexpected result of an experiment or an accidental discovery or breakthrough. This is not to say that scientists wait around for something to happen. Usually, the unexpected discoveries occur as the result of …showed first 75 words of 392 total…

…showed last 75 words of 392 total…recombinant DNA techniques used by today's biotechnology industry. It took an ex-physicist and a former ornithology student, along with some unwitting help from a competitor, to crack the secret of life. A strong drive to succeed and the ability to be in the right place at the right time may be common features of successful people. "It may be a question of being in the right place at the right time. It could be accidental."