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Article: Seeing Corals with the Eye of Reason

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February 1, 2009
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A rediscovered painting celebrates Charles Darwin's view of life

The sweetest words to a scientist, to pa rapii rase Isaac Asimov, may be not "Eureka! I've found it!" but "Hnnii . . . that's funny. What's that doing there?" A historian of science often has the same experience: a bit of data pops up that just doesn't seem to fit in with the rest. Yet, if greeted with curiosity and openness, the anomal}· can lead to an unanticipated treasure. I experienced such a serendipitous moment on October 3, 2006, in a small museum storage building in the English countryside. It wasn't as dramatic as detecting an unaccounted wobble in a planetary orbit, or a Staphylococcus-free zone around a growth of ...

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