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“Men should be taught as if you taught them not,           And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“And indeed, there are innumerable cases of important discoveries being made because the failed experiment revealed a new set of possibilities that you hadn’t even realized were there. This is sometimes mistaken for serendipity, a notion that, since it’s come up, I would like to take a moment to dispute.”
― Stuart Firestein, Failure: Why Science Is So Successful

“Failures provide a certain kind of feedback that is then used in a process we call error correction. With this simple loop in place, knowing that something doesn’t work can be as valuable as knowing that it does. Of course once again there are”
― Stuart Firestein, Failure: Why Science Is So Successful

“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent. —Alan Turing”
― Stuart Firestein, Failure: Why Science Is So Successful