Science Quote by Robert Wachter

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

— Hugh Walpole

“Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than…

— Jules Verne

When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.”

— Jules Verne

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

— Horace Walpole

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries”

— Benjamin Franklin

“It is wrong to make statements in the name of science to presuppose the truth instead of accurately representing it.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everywhere one turned, one found idiocies that were commonly accepted as truths only because they were embedded in a theory to which the scientists…

— Michael Lewis

“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes…

— Charles Mackay

“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”

— Robert A. Burton

“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