Neil Turok Quotes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I'm still experimenting.

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 …

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

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

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

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.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?