A famous scientist was asked why he was able to be so much more creative than the average person. What set him so far1from others?

  He 2that it all resulted from a (n) 3that occurred when he was three. He was tryingto4a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost hold of the bottle, spilling its 5all over the kitchen floor.

      Instead of 6at him,his mother said，“Robert, what awonderful 7you have made！Ihave 8seen such a huge puddle of milk.Since the9is done,would you like to get down and play in the milk for a while 10cleaning it up？”

        Indeed, he did.“Robert，11you make a mess like this，12you have to clean it up and restore everything to its13order.”And then together they cleaned up the spilled milk.His mother then said，“Robert,that is a 14experiment in how to 15carry a big milk bottle.Let's go out in the yard and fill the bottle with water and see if youcan 16a way to carry a bottle of water without dropping it.”

       The scientist remarked he learned from that moment that mistakes were just 17for learning something new, which is18scientific experiments are all about.Even if the experiment “doesn't work”，we usually learn something19from it.

Wouldn't it be great if all 20would respond like Robert's mother?

Notes：

①creative adj.有创造力的，创造性的，独创的　②creative work创造性的工作　③restore vt.恢复，复兴　④to restore law and order恢复法律和秩序     

       A woman was walking her dog along a beach in New Zealand in late June when she saw something that looked like a white ball in the sand. It turned out to be a young Emperor penguin that was lost. At his age, he should have been close to Antarctic, swimming for fish and playing on the ice floes (浮冰). But this penguin started swimming north and just kept going.

       The penguin attracted a lot of attention in New Zealand. It has been 40 years since an Emperor penguin was last seen there. Researchers at the Department of Conservation were called in. They decided to watch the penguin closely, but not to disturb it in any way. Many New Zealanders came to Peka Peka Beach to look at the elegant penguin. They were careful to keep their dogs away from it so it wouldn't be frightened.

       The public nicknamed the animal Happy Feet. Researchers started to notice that Happy Feet didn't seem well. It turned out that he had been eating the sand from the beach, likely thinking it was snow.

       The public raised more than 11,000 pounds for an operation to get the sand out of his stomach. The operation was a success, and Happy Feet was taken to a zoo in Wellington, NZ. A group of experts met to decide how to help Happy Feet return to the wild.

        Last Sunday, they put him on a boat called the Tangaroa, in a specially built ice­filled box and took him out into the Southern Ocean, southeast of New Zealand. There, they released him into the ocean, which is his natural habitat. He took one last look at his human helpers and then dived into the ocean.

      “Emperor penguins spend their first five years at sea，” said Peter Simpson of New Zealand's Department of Conservation. “What happens now is up to the penguin.”

         Happy Feet was fitted with a satellite transmitter (信号发射器) so they can monitor his progress using the Internet. So far, the trackers shows that he swam northeast for a little while before getting his bearings and heading south.