Re:Japan: To Fix Your Economy, Honor Your Failed Entrepreneurs
by anamax on Monday October 18, 2010 @02:36PM
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> True scientists celebrate failures.
No.
Scientists try to produce knowledge. Scientists don't "celebrate" failing to produce knowledge.
Note that producing knowledge is not the same as producing other goods or services that may be related to said knowledge.
For example, learning why something that "should work" doesn't is a knowledge success. However, it's a failure to do whatever "should work" is supposed to do.
By the same token, just doing something that should work is a knowledge failure even as it's a success at doing whatever "should work" is supposed to do.
No.
Scientists try to produce knowledge. Scientists don't "celebrate" failing to produce knowledge.
Note that producing knowledge is not the same as producing other goods or services that may be related to said knowledge.
For example, learning why something that "should work" doesn't is a knowledge success. However, it's a failure to do whatever "should work" is supposed to do.
By the same token, just doing something that should work is a knowledge failure even as it's a success at doing whatever "should work" is supposed to do.