Mistakes In 'In Praise Of Careful Science'

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Mistakes To The Rescue Have you ever wanted to create a device that could be used by everyone or anything? Have you ever had to do a science project for school where you needed to test materials out? Well if you have not here are some things you need to know. First of all, you need to understand that there will be a lot of mistakes you encounter on your way to the top. You might not be able to fix them, and that is okay. Many of the electronics, toys, and anything else you can think of have been invented with the use of these accidents. Mistakes have helped invent some of the extrodinary discoveries we have today. Mistakes are a big key in creating world-wide discoveries because they give a hand in creating something new, and they …show more content…

In the article, "In Praise of Careful Science" the author wrote, "The typical role of a mistake in science is not to lead to a brilliant invention, but to teach a scientist how to do better next time. (paragraph 22)" When you create a mistake, it is your duty to find a way to correct that problem. It is a long process to think of an idea, make the product, and then place it in the market. Today, there is a lot of new technology that is taking over people houses. To create that product the creator had to go through many mistakes and problems along the way. The producers could have crashed into problems such as the product did not work, or that it just would not go together. But that is okay, do you know why? Because with all those mistakes along the way, the makers learned how to correct themselves and make their product even better then they expected. So next time when you are working on a project and you get stopped by some bump along the way, do not get stressed, because if you try again you will learn what you did wrong and how to solve …show more content…

Scientist take a lot of time to add perfection to many ideas. They also try to makes as little mistakes as they can. Yes it does take a lot of time and effort to invent something so revolutionary. But you do need mistakes in the process to create such revolutionary things. The article, "In Praise of Careful Science", states, "It also took more than 20 years after the "melted chocolate moment" to bring a commercial microwave to the public. (paragraph 20)" So, it took twenty years after the "melted chocolate" incident to put a microwave on shelves in stores. But there would not be a microwave to perfect if Percy Spencer did not take that step of making a mistake in his process by standing near the Magnetron with a bar of chocolate in the pocket of his pants. Did they scientist who voted "careful" think of that? Yes it may be good in some projects to try not to make big mistakes, and yes not all accidents lead to success. But most of the time it is alright if you make mistakes, because all you know, is that maybe one day, you can become the next top inventor, just think about the apple that feel and created a bump on a head to help our understanding of

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