On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 22:19 -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> This is kind of a fun one: stuff that DID NOT work. I like the basic
> idea ... 

>  “failures” may actually provide clues to even more significant
> results than the original experimenter had intended. The research is
> useful, even though the results are unexpected.

When Mario Salvadori gave his grandmother a copy of his new book, _Why
Buildings Stand Up_, she thanked him and said "but I'd much rather know
why buildings fall down."

That remark was the catalyst for his next book, _Why Buildings Fall
Down_.


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