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Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Adrian Bejan

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Adrian Bejan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 24
Duke University
Engineer
Physicist
Professor
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Make
Accidents
Sagacity
Things
Discovery
Unforeseen
Based
Serendipity
Creative
Discoveries
Knowledge
Quests
Experience
Quest
Also
Exploitation
Way
Accident

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