Guided composition for GMAT issue topic

Presented below is an issue topic. I have given preliminary notes around which you can write your issue essay. Try it out...

Present your perspective on the issue below using relevant reasons and/or examples to support your views

“Only through mistakes can there be discovery or progress”

Preliminary notes:

• Do I agree completely with the statement?
• Can’t there be progress without mistake? - Yes, there can be
• Does mistake lead to progress – Yes – but is it only through mistakes that we make progress- no – does this mean serendipity?
• What about man’s intellectual curiosity that motivates him to discover new knowledge? – it is true
• Let me qualify the statement examples
• Scientist purposefully searches fro new knowledge with out having made mistakes – a nation can learn from its past mistakes.