If a failure were a fish, you might call it a floater. If a failure were a bird, you might call it a flutterby. If a failure were a book, you might call it a flop. In fact, if a failure were anything, you could call it a floater, flutterby, flop, or fish
But what if the failure is you? What if it’s not that your brain didn’t work as fast as it should have, or that the words didn’t come out right? What if your mind was so convinced of its own superiority that it refused to let a mistake happen? What if you weren’t being “lazy” or “stupid” or “disobedient” enough to allow yourself to have made a mistake? Tell me, what would you call that?
All religions are guessworkBangambiki Habyarimana
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.Paul R. Halmos
