Errors Quote by Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

“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

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

— Hugh Walpole

Errors are many, truth is unique.

— Pyotr Kapitsa

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from…

— Thomas Binney

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

— Carl Jung

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

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

— Horace Walpole

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

— Baruch Spinoza