Medusa And The Snail By Lewis Thomas

Wrong choices are a part of human life and can influence our lives for the better or for the worse, but they are necessary for learning. If you had not touched a hot stove as a child, how would you know not to do it again? If you have never been wrong, how can you know when you are right? If you do not make mistakes, how will you learn? In The Medusa and the Snail, the author and biologist, Lewis Thomas, makes several valuable points as to why mistakes are an important part of the human learning process.
Mistakes are at the very core of human nature, for learning must come through the process of trial and error. In psychology, learning and conditioning can be learned through experience or observation, therefore making mistakes and even watching