Accepted Quote by Philip Arthur Fisher

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

I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always…

— Chuck Klosterman

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

— Mardy Grothe

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

— Steven Novella

“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are finally proved…

— George Orwell

“Never in the history of the world have we had easier access to more information - some of it true, some of it false,…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely…

— Pierre Bayle

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

— Jeff Hawkins

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely…

— Pierre Bayle

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help…

— Criss Jami

“People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout