Absolutes Quote by John William Strutt

“The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science…

— Karl R. Popper

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

— Lewis Mumford

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and…

— Ronald Fisher

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading…

— James Bryant Conant

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science…

— Karl Popper

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

— Hilary Mason

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great…

— Woodrow Wilson

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor…

— George Sarton

The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”

— Robert A. Burton

Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

— Karl Popper