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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
"The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."— Albert Einstein
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Meaning of this quote
Experimentation brings a risk of error that cannot be removed without limiting new ideas.
Key takeaway:
Allow room for mistakes while testing an idea.
Origin of the quote
A widely repeated Einstein attribution.
Who actually said this?
Commonly attributedLater educational publications repeat the sentence without identifying an original Einstein source. It should remain a provisional attribution.
