To quote Howard Taylor, creator of “Schlock Mercenary,” his Maxim 70 states, “Failure is not an option, it’s mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.” Thomas Edison, (even though I prefer Nikola Tesla,) failed often, but he kept trying, and meticulously recorded the results of his experiments, both failures and successes. That is the importance of the scientific method, and what we should be teaching our children and our peers.