Stephen Glenn is a famous American research scientist. He has made several very important medical1. When a newspaper journalist asked him why he was able to be so much more2than the average person, he responded that it all came from a(n)3with his mother that occurred when he was a child.
Stephen had been trying to4a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he5his grip on the slippery bottle and it fell, spilling(泼出) its contents all over the kitchen floor-a real sea of milk! When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of6at him, giving him a lecture or chastising him, she said, "what a great and wonderful7you have made! I have rarely seen such a huge pond of milk. Well, the8has already been done. Would you like to get down and play in the milk for a few minutes9we clean it up？"
Indeed, he did. After a few minutes, his mother said, " Stephen, whenever you make a mess like this, 10you have to clean it up and restore everything to its proper11."And together they cleaned up the spilled milk. His mother then said, "You know, what we have here is a12experiment in how to effectively carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands. Let's go out in the back yard and13the bottle with water and see if you can discover a way to carry it without14it "The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could15it without dropping it. What a good16to him!
This famous scientist then remarked that it was at that moment that he knew he didn't need to be afraid to make17. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just 18for learning something new, which is, after all, what scientific19are all about. Even if the experiment doesn't work, we usually learn something20from it.
