Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.