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The selection of his major discipline, which would eventually be called visual neuroscience, may have been serendipity or choice.
The high-tech house creates "a technological cocoon that anticipates your every need and protects you not only from danger, but from serendipity as well."
Serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole from the fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip (the ancient name for Ceylon), who often set sail for one destination and found something even better, by fortunate accident.
We need not cavil, of course, at the absence of such obvious reference sources; in a work like this the author has the right to favour serendipity over methodical research.
This may be acceptable if there is a clear idea of what is being sought in the experiment, but is possibly detrimental in studies relying on exploration and serendipity to find patterns.