Serendipity

Unplanned, fortunate discovery

Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. In 1754 Horace Walpole coined the word and described an amazing discovery as being “of that kind which I call Serendipity”. Robert K. Merton first came upon the concept-and-term of serendipity in the 1930s in the Oxford English Dictionary. Here, he discovered that the word had been coined by Walpole. Merton revealed 1946 his concept of the “serendipity pattern” in empirical research, of observing an unanticipated, anomalous, and strategic datum, which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory. Merton describes it later as „the discovery through chance by a theoretically prepared mind of valid findings which were not sought for“

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