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.
In our lives we encounter a stage where searching for an answer to a particular question, rather than finding that we find answers for another completely unrelated topic. But this cannot be said for discoveries and inventions. In my opinion, it is the hardwork and perseverance of the man behind the invention is what led to the final product and not any accident or mishappening. So, I disagree with the author that discoveries are accidental and are usually made while seeking answers to another question.
There is a popular saying that ' Rome was not built in a day'. It was the sheer persistence and tireless construction carried out by the workers that led to the invention. Similarly, it takes a number of years of research and work in that field that leads to inventions and not mere accidents. Right from the creation of electric bulb in 1880 by Edison to the discovery of Nobel Prize-winning blue 'Light-emmiting diode
(LED)' by Japanese researches, all were purposefully sought and a product of a number of painstaking years. In fact, this list becomes even longer when we consider the inventions of DNA structures, photoelectric effect, atom structures, etc. These inventions would never occur if the scientists only depended on accidental research and never took the efforts needed.
However, there are some inventions that have taken place accidentally. It is fair to say that the Newton's discovery of Gravitation Law had a chance element in the falling of an apple. However, the number of these discoveries taking place by serendipity are far less. To set the record straight no layman can discover the X-rays from a glowing screen, microwave from melting a chocolate, laws of gravity and so on. It is several years of hardwork that led to these inventions even though they may have occured accidentally. So, the possibility of an accidental discovery must not be ruled out totally but one must also not become fully dependent that inventions will spring out accidentally.
In conclusion, this statement in my opinion goes too far in relying on accidents. It overlooks the effort needed by researches to bring about these inventions and fails to consider the myriad discoveries where 'intent' was the key. It focuses more on the 'trial and error' methodology which in these times do not work.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, similarly, so, while, in conclusion, in fact, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1924.0 2235.4752809 86% => OK
No of words: 384.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01041666667 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9393786472 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5625 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 603.0 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8964481415 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.263157895 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2105263158 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94736842105 5.21951772744 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.194698889807 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0513434658396 0.0831039109588 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10051359247 0.0758088955206 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0954980395104 0.150359130593 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115936138848 0.0667264976115 174% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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.