The Only Thing That Can

In The Realm Of Scientific Observation, Luck Is Granted Only To Those Who Are Prepared.

Never Will The Doctrine Of Spontaneous Generation Recover From The Mortal Blow Struck By This Simple Experiment.

Chance Favours A Prepared Mind.

The Universe Is Asymmetric.

In That Memorable Year, 1822: Oersted, A Danish Physicist, Held In His Hands A Piece Of Copper Wire, Joined By Its Extremities To The Two Poles Of A Volta Pile. On His Table Was A Magnetized Needle On Its Pivot, And He Suddenly Saw (by Chance You Will Say, But Chance Only Favours The Mind Which Is Prepared) The Needle Move And Take Up A Position Quite Different From The One Assigned To It By Terrestrial Magnetism. A Wire Carrying An Electric Current Deviates A Magnetized Needle From Its Position. That, Gentlemen, Was The Birth Of The Modern Telegraph.