General relativity Quote by Margaret Wertheim

Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn,…

— Richard Dawkins

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

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at…

— Isaac Asimov

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A lot of the time, when I find myself critiquing scientific accuracy in movies, I have to remind myself that it had to get…

— Randall Munroe

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a…

— Carl Sagan

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a…

— Dr Carl Sagan

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather…

— John Banham

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

— Freeman Dyson

Scientists can never be sure about the correctness of their theories. Every theory is just as good as the things it manages to predict…

— Sabelo Lan Mashabela

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 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