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The discoveries that change everything are those that have a deep social impact; those discoveries of thought, of science and of technology which, after being made in a lab or elsewhere by chance, fortune or scheming, in the end find their own way inside society and become an integral part of it. It’s their entry into society, their acceptance as discoveries and then the use of them, be it practical or conceptual, to build scientific advancement. From history we learn that often some time goes by between a discovery and its entry into society. Famous examples are legions, from electricity to the internal combustion engine, from the lamp bulb to the understanding of the relation between germs and infections and many more.
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Bignami, G.F. (2014). Epilogue: The Discoveries That Will Change Everything. In: Imminent Science. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5352-6_10
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