• Question: If you fail in a project, what do you do?

    Asked by Tanha Miah to Philip on 13 Mar 2015.
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      Philip Moriarty answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Oh, what a great question!

      In science we very often fail. Science is about exploration and about discovering/uncovering the unknown. This means that we will very often fail because we don’t know what’s “out there”. When we fail we use the knowledge from that failure to adapt the project.

      There’s a great quote from Samuel Beckett which sums this up:

      ” Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

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