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A Shorter History of Science by William Cecil Dampier
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“Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.

(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)”
― William Cecil Dampier, A Shorter History of Science

tags: accidents, discoveries, röntgen, science, wilhelm-conrad-röntgen, wilhelm-röntgen, x-ray

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