“We want the most life-saving, life-enhancing, productivity-expanding inventions and innovations possible,” Evans said. “That means we need a system that is designed to take more risks, and accept more failures, as a part of the scientific process.”87 In a strange way, the problem isn’t that too much science is “doomed to fail,” he said. It’s the opposite. Too much science is, in his words, “doomed to succeed”—fated to duplicate what we know rather than risk failure by reaching into the unknown.
