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Innovation has always been trowing money in pipes dream, because by definition everything that does not exist is an idea, a dream. Most ideas fail. The people

Innovation has always been trowing money in pipes dream, because by definition everything that does not exist is an idea, a dream. Most ideas fail. The people that spend their lives doing something are the people that create worthy things in the end, because they learn from failures. "The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried." "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." - Niels Bohr There is this delusion coming from academics education that successful people are those that never fail. This is true in Academics, where all the knowledge is already known. But for a researcher or innovator you need to fail. Even when most projects fail, those who do not gives enormous rewards.

eesmith 8y ago
You wrote: "This is true in Academics, where all the knowledge is already known." I don't understand that. What academic believes that all knowledge is already known? Wasn't Bohr an academic? He was President of the Royal Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, he won a gold medal competition sponsored by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. That really sounds like an academic researcher, which you seem to suggest is impossible. BTW, your Bohr quote appears to be from Teller (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004316489090069M https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004316... ), who attributed it to Bohr (https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/28983/McGlinchey2018.pdf?sequence=1 https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/28983/McG... ) I prefer: “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them” - Werner Karl Heisenberg (1971) Physics and beyond: Encounters and conversations and: "you must learn from the mistakes of others—you will never live long enough to make them all yourself" - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/09/18/live-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/09/18/live-long/
Ma8ee 8y ago
It’s not true in academia, even though it might be true for undergrad students.

eesmith 8y ago

You wrote: "This is true in Academics, where all the knowledge is already known." I don't understand that. What academic believes that all knowledge is already known? Wasn't Bohr an academic? He was President of the Royal Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, he won a gold medal competition sponsored by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. That really sounds like an academic researcher, which you seem to suggest is impossible. BTW, your Bohr quote appears to be from Teller (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004316489090069M https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004316... ), who attributed it to Bohr (https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/28983/McGlinchey2018.pdf?sequence=1 https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/28983/McG... ) I prefer: “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them” - Werner Karl Heisenberg (1971) Physics and beyond: Encounters and conversations and: "you must learn from the mistakes of others—you will never live long enough to make them all yourself" - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/09/18/live-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/09/18/live-long/

Ma8ee 8y ago

It’s not true in academia, even though it might be true for undergrad students.