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You've made a mistake? No worries: in achieving great results, all of us - yes, even geniuses, occasionally fail (@ Live Science)

5/15/2013

 
Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate some underlying mystery or impacting the way an entire field thinks.

In celebration of happy accidents and enlightening errors, astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., tells the stories of five great scientific mistakes in his new book "Brilliant Blunders" (Simon & Schuster, May 14, 2013).
  • Darwin's notion of heredity
  • Kelvin's Earth age estimate
  • Pauling's triple helix
  • Hoyle's Big Bang
  • Einstein's cosmological constant
These stories serve to show how even the smartest among us can err, and that in fact to achieve a big breakthrough, big risks are necessary, which sometimes also involve big failures.
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  • Read 'Oops! 'The 5 Greatest Scientific Blunders' by Clara Moskowitz (@ LiveScience)

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