If we can’t make mistakes, then we can’t do science | Serendipity

If we can’t make mistakes, then we can’t do science | Serendipity: "Science is a process that compensates for the human failings of the people who engage in it, by continually questioning evidence, re-testing ideas, replicating results, collecting more data, and so on. Mistakes are made all the time. Individual scientists screw up. If they don’t make mistakes, they’re not doing worthwhile science"