Courses Quote by Edward Teller

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors…

— Seth Shostak

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a…

— Carl Sagan

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little…

— Jules Verne

[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting,…

— Carl Sagan

The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse,…

— Robert Pollack

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

— Lewis Thomas

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a…

— Dr Carl Sagan

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

— Freeman Dyson

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to…

— Carl Sagan

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

“There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting…

— Carl Sagan