Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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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 important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.
When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.
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