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Francis Collins

American physician-scientist

United States · b. 1950

Science and medicine

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 76 other answers →

about 95% of the experiments we do are total failures, and that’s because we’re out there on the leading edge of what’s possible, and most of the time it isn’t quite possible.

Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, Bethesda, Maryland, 1 April 2000 source ↗

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