A famous scientist who had made an important medical breakthrough was being interviewed. A newspaper reporter asked him why he thought he was able to be 1 more creative than the average person.
He said that it all came from a(n) 2 that occurred when he was about two years old. He was trying to 3 a bottle of milk from the refrigerator 4 he lost his grip on the slippery bottle and it fell, spilling the milk all 5 the floor.
His mother came into the kitchen. 6 yelling at him, giving him a lecture or 7 him, she said, "Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have 8 ! I have rarely seen such a huge pool of milk. Well, the 9 has already been done. Would you like to get 10 and play in "the sea of milk for a few minutes before we clean it up
This scientist then remarked that it was at that moment 11 he knew he didn"t need to be 12 to make mistakes. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just 13 for learning something new, which is, after all, what 14 experiments are all about. Even if the experiment doesn"t 15 , we usually learn something from it.