"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."

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In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

— David W. Orr