Most important discoveries or creations are accidental: it is usually while seeking the answer to one question that we come across the answer to another
Many of the most incredible discoveries in the world came about when someone find something they are no seeking for. I therefore personally believe that many of the most important discoveries are accidental. However, the author overstates the role of accidental discoveries when it comes to the modern day discoveries and creations. It cannot be ignored that some of the great scientific discoveries come out only after years of painstaking goal oriented lab works and experiments.
History is replete with many great discoveries happened in the past while people were searching for the answer of something and inadvertently came with the answer of some other things they are not seeking for. These unintended discoveries later came out to be one of the incredible discoveries in the human history. For instance, Viagra was discovered unintentionally when Pfizer tried to find the medicine for hypertension and angina pectoris. Viagra is globally used as a medicine for erectile dysfunction and has helped maintain happy conjugal life of millions of people worldwide. Similarly, Quinine is one of the most serendipitous medical discoveries which was discovered when one of the Indian- lost in Andean jungle, thirsty and suffering from high fever- drank the stagnant water from the quina-quina tree. After that, his fever abated abruptly and the discovery of anti-malarial drug-quinine- happened fortuitously. Further, penicillin was also discovered unintentionally by Fleming, which was used widely as an anti-bacterial medicine during Second World War, and is still used as antibiotics for any bacterial infection. These are some of the examples of accidental discoveries in the field of medicine, which clearly shows that many of the most incredible discoveries happened accidentally.
Similarly, X-ray was also discovered unwittingly when Wilhelm Roentgen was working with cathode ray tubes in his lab while observing fluorescence glow at different voltages. In modern days, X-ray is used worldwide in hospitals to observe the conditions of fractured bones, dislocation of joints etc before carrying out treatment. Similarly, the discovery of radioactivity is also a fortunate happenstance which has changed the face of medical field. Radioactivity is used in the treatment of different diseases such as tumor, cancers, thyroids etc. Radioactivity is also used to locate the positions, size and movements of different internal body parts. Further, the discovery of insulin, Teflon, and microwave were also fortuitous. Thus, we can conclude that many of the most important discoveries happened accidentally.
However, on the other hand, history witnessed numerous inventions and discoveries which came about after years of painstaking goal oriented lab works and experiments. For instance, the discovery of airbus became possible only after the years of painstaking works by Wright brothers. Similarly, Thomas Alva Edison discovered electric bulb only after his deliberate working for years. He failed almost 1000 times of his experimentation, but finally became successful in discovery such bulb. Further, the laws of electromagnetic induction was discovered by Michael Faraday only after performing arduous lab work. Because of these laws we are now able to avail the advantages of different electric devices such as water pump, generators, fans, dynamos, transformers and so on. Similarly there are numerous groundbreaking scientific theories- such as the theory of relativity, string theory, big-bang theory etc-which were developed only after years of hard work and research. Thus, many of the important theories can occur because of the results of years of painstaking lab works and experiments.
In sum, I agree with the term that many of the most successful discoveries happen serendipitously when someone finds something for which he is not seeking for. However, the role of years of painstaking works and research of people in making many important discoveries and invention cannot be ignored.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, second, similarly, so, still, therefore, thus, while, for instance, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3401.0 2235.4752809 152% => OK
No of words: 609.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.58456486043 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96768813016 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1323155049 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463054187192 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1084.5 704.065955056 154% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.00882549 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.275862069 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.37931034483 5.21951772744 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184055165721 0.243740707755 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0547079115241 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0563355275745 0.0758088955206 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115781024588 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.056947795939 0.0667264976115 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.8420337079 68% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 155.0 100.480337079 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.