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How failure fuels great science

Brian Cox, Robin Ince, comedian Rufus Hound, Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Adam Rutherford discuss why the modern world is geared to fearing failure and why this is wrong by explaining that making mistakes was crucial to some of the greatest discoveries in science.

First broadcast on The Infinite Monkey Cage, 30 January 2017.

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5 minutes

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