failures

I was reading in my Princeton Alumni Magazine about scientists describing their path to success, which was mostly filled with failures. So, there are these grad students who are doing an experiment and they can't see how the results have any meaning. And the professors start to tell the grad students that they aren't looking at it the right way. Not that the professors know the answers. They don't. They just know that science shows that if you do an experiment properly, the results will ...