Courses Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork…

— Carl Sagan

Even Einstein made mistakes; they just weren't stupid.

— Matthew Van Zyl

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.

— Thomas Huxley

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

“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

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

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

— Karl Popper

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean…

— Freeman Dyson

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found…

— Richard Hamming