Maurice Wilkins Quotes

I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.