How much of your scientific career has unfolded as you planned, and how much has been shaped by blind luck? I suspect the latter has been more important than many of us realize, or at least acknowledge, but as Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind”—implying that we have at least some control over how random events affect our lives. Here, I discuss how large and small chance events have affected the trajectory of my scientific career.

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偶然和我

您的科学职业生涯中有多少按照您的计划进行了发展，而运气却因盲目塑造了多少？我怀疑后者比我们许多人所意识到的更为重要，或者至少是我们承认的，但是正如路易斯·巴斯德（Louis Pasteur）所说，“机会只支持有准备的人” —暗示我们至少对随机事件如何影响我们的生活有一定的控制权。在这里，我将讨论大小偶然事件如何影响我的科学职业轨迹。