Many important discoveries or creations are accidental it is usually while seeking the answer to one question that we come across the answer to another

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Many 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 historic important discoveries often seemed “accidental”, which means some believe that usually while going back and forth in another question, people come to a solution to this. However, I mostly disagree with the claim.
There remain, indeed, some examples of so-called accidental discoveries. In particular, the famous incident of Issac Newton thinking about mechanics while being hit by an apple led to the eventual discovery of universal gravitation. Another example is Galvani’s seemingly accidental discovery of bioelectricity. However, these stories are often intended to motivate us to study science and therefore lack authenticity. Even if one has witnessed the occasional phenomenon that may lead to discoveries unrelated to one’s original inquiry or branch, without sufficient knowledge in the bigger field that covers both the original branch and the branch related to the occasional phenomenon one could fail to make these discoveries credible. For example, without brilliant skills in anatomy and sufficient knowledge of neuro mechanisms, Galvani could not pay close attention to such an occasional phenomenon. Moreover, without the various experiments Galvani did after this observation, he could never testify the discovery only through an accidental phenomenon. A more important fact that could thoroughly deny the statement above about “accidental” in terms of discovery or creation: any discovery that can stand up to scrutiny and bring practical value should be found by researchers with enough knowledge accumulation and systematic verification rather than occasional luck. This would be explained more elaborately below.
First and foremost, important discoveries need sufficient professional knowledge in the fields. Issac Newton, have to go through hundreds of pages of previous work by Aristotle, Galileo, etc. to begin his work on Newton’s mechanics; only through a full understanding of Newton’s work, can Einstein question the validity of it, together with the experiment results proved by Plank and Maxwell, he established the modern structure of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics; Alan Turing, after learning the reliability of electronics and the development of electronic valves, constructs the first electronic computers, which performs perfectly in decoding enigma of WW2 of decoding enigma. Without years of accumulation of knowledge, one could never make discoveries even if providing one is provided with the best circumstances such as materials and human resources to disclose the in the world and the right moment for discoveries.
Additionally, every discovery requires systematic verification before practical application. Without verification, one theory could only be a conjecture, which lends strength to the fact that lucky researchers aiming at other questions find discoveries unrelated to his intention that could be easily denied without the discoveries standing up practical application. For example, many scientists in the 19th century are curious about the components of light. Since light is proven to be an electronic wave and waves need media to spread, they define the media of light as “Ether”. Over the years, many laboratories claimed to find Ether by either experiment or theoretical derivation but failed in questions and doubts. Finally, it is proven that Ether, does not exist. Hence, without sufficient theoretical and experimental support, discoveries cannot be deemed reliable and valuable discoveries.
In conclusion, the known accidental factor of discoveries is minor and even negligible, even does not exist, whereas credible and practical discoveries should be based on both knowledge and support from enough empirical evidence.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, well, whereas, while, for example, in conclusion, in particular, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 86.0 58.6224719101 147% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3195.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 548.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.8302919708 5.05705443957 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83832613839 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14784935975 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 303.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552919708029 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 998.1 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 13.0 4.38483146067 296% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 107.896207915 60.3974514979 179% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.913043478 118.986275619 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8260869565 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47826086957 5.21951772744 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203422701731 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0574043880302 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0654721751523 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127596584736 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.072252595633 0.0667264976115 108% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 14.1392134831 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 48.8420337079 64% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.83 12.1639044944 138% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.65 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 169.0 100.480337079 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.7820224719 153% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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