Errors Quote by Marie Curie

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of…

— Humphry Davy

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 are very afraid of being proven wrong.

— Donald Johanson

As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.

— Henry Markram

“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth: Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.”

— Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

— Kitty Ferguson

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

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the…

— James P. Hogan

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

— H. P. Lovecraft

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

— Penelope Fitzgerald