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I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures. -- Craig Venter
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. -- David Brin
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold. -- Edward Bach
Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. -- Bob Proctor
One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure -- Eric Hoffer
As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows. -- Michael Behe

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