Marie Curie Quotes

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

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

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

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.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

In medicine, or in science, you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we don’t have to go down that path again. In the press, they call it failure. And so people are unwilling to innovate, unwilling to take risks in government …

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.