We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.