<div dir="ltr">Just about every experiment involves an element of luck. We call it “serendipity” to make ourselves feel smarter, but it’s luck. And it’s not just experiments, either; so many aspects of science, and being a successful scientist, require being the person whose name comes up in the lottery.<div><br><a href="http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_12_23/caredit.a1400321">http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_12_23/caredit.a1400321</a></div></div>