Activity Quote by Karl Popper

“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

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 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

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

Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be…

— Carl Sagan

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

— Allan Sandage

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

— Michael Crichton

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

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 the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

— Jacob Bronowski

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