Nassim Taleb mentioned Happy Accidents by Morton A. Meyers 2 times

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Happy Accidents by Morton A. Meyers
  1. Morton Meyers, a practicing doctor and researcher, writes in his wonderful Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs: “Over a twenty-year period of screening more than 144,000 plant extracts, representing about 15,000 species, not a single plant-based anticancer drug reached approved status. This failure stands in stark contrast to the discovery in the late 1950s of a major group of plant-derived cancer drugs, the Vinca Alcaloids—a discovery that came about by chance, not through directed research.

    — Nassim Taleb

    2012-11-27 in Antifragile

  2. Please Please READ This Book! Read it TWICE!

    — Nassim Taleb

    2007-03-25 on amazon.com