Core Quote by Robert Pollack

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

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

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

— Jules Verne

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

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

— Karl Popper

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to…

— Jules Verne

“We would rather admit our moral errors, mistakes and crimes than our scientific errors.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is…

— Richard P. Feynman

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the…

— Alan Dershowitz

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

— Thomas Huxley