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“Failure is also a test of dedication. It is a way to measure what you are passionate about and how deep that passion runs and how dependable it is. Science may seem methodical but it demands passion.”
― Stuart Firestein, Failure: Why Science Is So Successful

“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

“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

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