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The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes | Phil Plait

The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes | Phil Plait

The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes | Phil Plait

TED Talks Science and Medicine · Phil Plait

March 18, 201910m 55s

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Show Notes

Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses -- through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. "The price of doing science is admitting when you're wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding," he says.

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