Mistakes are not key point to discovery because mistakes can be harmful .For example, Mistakes can be harmful to the environment. In the passage, “Lost Cities, Lost Treasures” two archeologists Heinrich Schliemann and Frank Calvert were digging for artifacts and the completely destroyed an ancient city that could have been observed in more detail by other archeologists. Calvert and Schliemann were being so careless and dug down too far that they destroyed ancient Troy. Now no one can observe the ancient city of Troy because Calvert and Schliemann made a mistake. For example, imagine a forest getting dug up for artifacts because there are supposedly …show more content…
You don’t want to be doing the same mistake over and over again. That is just a waste of time. In the text, “How a Melted Bar of Chocolate Changed Our Kitchens” it took scientists over 20 years of making mistakes to make the first real microwavable oven. Now that is over 20 years of making mistakes! This means doing something wrong over and over again for 20 years! Another example, in the passage “In Praise of Careful Science” it states “Don’t be fooled: Accidents don’t usually leads to perfect discoveries. Most scientist work for decades and make very few mistakes but when they do make mistakes, they usually cause problems not progress.” Imagine yourself writing an essay and not doing it right the first time and having to do it 20 other times to make it perfect while you could have done it right the first time. That is probably how the scientist felt trying to make the microwavable oven perfect for 20