06.17.06
Best Accidental Discoveries
Wired’s Best Accidental Discoveries. Top 3 on the list are: Viagra, LSD, and X-Rays. Penicillin came in forth. Also check out this list at pbs. Did you know the pap smear was discovered and named after by Dr. George Nicholas Papanicolaou?
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
-American physicist Joseph Henry