There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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.
Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.