EXPERIMENTATION Always remain open and experimentative, always ready to walk a path you have never walked before. Who knows? Even if it proves useless, it will be an experience. Edison was working on a certain experiment for almost three years, and he had failed seven hundred times. All his colleagues and his students became completely frustrated. Every morning he would come to the lab happy and bubbling with joy, ready to start again. It was too much: seven hundred times and three years wasted! Everybody was almost certain that nothing was going to come of the experiment. The whole thing seemed to be useless, just a whim. They all gathered and told Edison, We have failed seven hundred times. We have not achieved anything. We have to stop. Edison laughed uproariously. He said, What are you talking about? Failed? We have succeeded in knowing that seven hundred methods wont be of any help. We are coming closer and closer to the truth every day! If we had not knocked on those seven hundred doors, we would have had no way of knowing. But now we are certain that seven hundred doors are false. This is a great achievement! This is the basic scientific attitude: If you can decide that something is false, you are coming closer to the truth. Truth is not available in the market so that you can go directly and order it. It is not ready-made, available. You have to experiment. So always remain experimentative. And never become smug. Never think that whatever you are doing is perfect. It is never perfect. It is always possible to improve on it; it is always possible to make it more perfect. -OSHO https://youtube/watch?v=tcuiuIwtpa4
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:52:17 +0000
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