Everyone makes mistakes, and the brilliant among us are no exception as Mario Livio tells us in his book Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe.

Livio, an astrophysicist who works on the Hubble telescope, relates how even the most genius minds sometimes made mistakes in their work – and how their discoveries came in spite of, or sometimes because of, their mistakes.