Accounts Quote by Ernst Mayr

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

— George Saunders

I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

— Nikola Tesla

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to…

— George Eliot

The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.

— Frances Xavier Cabrini

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes acknowledging your erroneous ways is the first step to redemption.

— Ravi Shastri

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of…

— James Prescott Joule

“Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be obtained until…

— David Deutsch

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

— Franz Grillparzer

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

— Voltaire