Science Quote by Hugh Walpole

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

— Horace Walpole

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

— Jules Verne

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to…

— Jules Verne

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

“Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than…

— Jules Verne

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

— Carl Jung

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have…

— Robert Pollack

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. —Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford (1717–1797)”

— Robert Wachter

“It is wrong to make statements in the name of science to presuppose the truth instead of accurately representing it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

— Carl Gustav Jung