a. Aptitude for serendipity
b. Curiosity
c. Good ethics
d. Healthy skepticism
e. Honesty
f. Perseverance

_________1. A student closely observes how a spider spins its web.
_________2. In a TV commercial for disposable diapers, a baby fixes a leaking
hose by wrapping his disposable diaper around the hose.
_________3. A student saw a TV commercial about a detergent that cleaned
better than their household detergent. The student performed the same
experiment to verify the claims advertised.
_________4. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, one of the leading atomic scientists,
strongly opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb on moral,
technological, economic, and political grounds, and persuaded other
outstanding scientists not to work on it.
_________5. Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist known for his
research on black holes and advanced cosmology, suffered from amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Although he could no
longer speak and can barely move, his mind remained unaffected. He
continued to explain theoretical physics to the public through movies, books,
and lectures.
_________6. British ethologist Jane Goodall is an expert on chimpanzees,
discovering through the years behavior patterns such as their ability to use straws
for extracting termites from nests.
_________7. In 1865, German chemist Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz
dreamt of a snake that ran in circles trying to catch its tail. With this, he was able
to propose the molecular structure of benzene.
_________8. One winter night in 1839, American chemist Charles Goodyear
accidentally dropped a piece of rubber flattened out into a small disk with
desirable rubber properties. Goodyear had accidentally invented vulcanization.