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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Sat Dec 12, 2015, 12:59 AM Dec 2015

This afternoon I was listening to Science Friday on NPR and...

they were talking about the value of failure in research and learning. A lot of talk about Edison, school testing and teaching reasoning, but there was one memorable quote:

The guest (whoever it was) said that what you want to hear from a researcher isn't "Eureka!" but "Huh, that's kinda weird..."

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This afternoon I was listening to Science Friday on NPR and... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Dec 2015 OP

I hard that too hollysmom Dec 2015 #1

I wouldn't want to hear "Damn! well, I've had a pretty good life" BlueJazz Dec 2015 #2

Yes. The finding something wrong moments are more important than serendipity. rusty quoin Dec 2015 #3

How quaint. Now we design the study to get our result so we can get or keep funding, or, jtuck004 Dec 2015 #4

This is why funding pure research is important. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2015 #5

You could still dream and make your Gedankenexperiments as a patent clerk. /nt jakeXT Dec 2015 #6

In one of his articles, Isaac Asimov said that most scientific discoveries are not greeted Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2015 #7

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)

1. I hard that too

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 01:11 AM

Dec 2015

questions more important than answers

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

2. I wouldn't want to hear "Damn! well, I've had a pretty good life"

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 01:28 AM

Dec 2015

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)

3. Yes. The finding something wrong moments are more important than serendipity.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 02:23 AM

Dec 2015

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

4. How quaint. Now we design the study to get our result so we can get or keep funding, or,

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 02:53 AM

Dec 2015

more importantly, for profit.

Saves ever so much more time that way, and we avoid a bunch of that expensive investment in people and such.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

5. This is why funding pure research is important.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:08 AM

Dec 2015

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

6. You could still dream and make your Gedankenexperiments as a patent clerk. /nt

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:20 AM

Dec 2015

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)

7. In one of his articles, Isaac Asimov said that most scientific discoveries are not greeted