From: Joshua Fox (joshua@joshuafox.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2008 - 23:43:28 MDT
Actually, the story of the development of penicillin is far more complex
than the accidental discovery often cited. See, e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_penicillin
Joshua
When we have no idea of what we want to do, I'd say that "nowhere near" is a
> good educated guess. When you stumble along in the dark,
> the odds are much greater that you're "nowhere near" your goal, rather
> than just next to it.
>
> And yes, penicillin is a counter-example :-) But those discoveries are
> quite rare, even if they're very vivid.
>
>
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