To What Extent Do You Make Mistakes A Key To Your Greatest Discovery

Do you think making mistakes are a key part to discovery? This topic has been discussed by generations of scientist. People who have been trying to discover something have been making mistakes for centuries. Scientist mistakes and discoveries seem to go hand in hand. Many people truly believe mistakes inhibit discoveries, however I believe mistakes can guide you to your greatest discovery. The first reason that mistakes are a key part to discovery is that even if we make a mistakes in our discovery we will learn new discoveries because of it. It shows in paragraph 8, “Schliemann’s careless actions erased important clues to Troy's past. Yet both men discovered great things at the site: ancient axes, household items, and jewels”(Source 1). This shows after Schiemann destroid the lost city of Troy’s artifacts, still found out other important articats and without it we wouldn’t know for sure what …show more content…
The author states, “What he discovered that day was more than how to get chocolate stains out of your clothes. He discovered a completely new way to cook”(Source 2). This reveals that one melted chocolate bar in Percy Spencer’s pocket lead him to create an invention that is sold and used all around the world. If you make a mistake follow what you learned, it might lead you to your greatest discovery.
The the third and final reaoson is when we make a mistake we learn more from it than we do when we succed our fist time. It’s like riding a bike, if you fall the first time and never try aging, you would never learn that your great at ridding a bike. It states in paragraph 1, “We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery”(Source 4). This means we will never actually have the opportunity to discover something new if we don’t fail and learn from