... Except that Edison succeeded. What kind of failures should we celebrate? There are two kinds that I can see: a failure to produce a result because of a lac

... Except that Edison succeeded. What kind of failures should we celebrate? There are two kinds that I can see: a failure to produce a result because of a lack of skill or knowledge and a failure to produce a result because of a demonstrable or provable reason. The last one is actually a success because that kind of failure produces new knowledge. But we have a culture in far too many fields where this is seen as not publishable.