Top 22 Quotes About Science Being Wrong

#1. Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

Bertrand Russell

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#2. I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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#3. Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

Lewis Thomas

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#4. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Isaac Asimov

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#5. U dare to threaten me?she retaliated, gaining her feet as she faced off with the Enforcer in what had to be the most unwise action in Council history since the decision to go to war with the Druids.

Jacquelyn Frank

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#6. The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

Lisa Randall

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#7. But you also pay a high price when you order people to do things that they can't do - especially people with a strong sense of self, people with rebel personalities.

Matthew Quick

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#8. Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

William Browne

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#9. Doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Kathryn Schulz

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#10. Your heart may tell you one thing, but it is the Word of God that must bear witness in this matter; any other testimony is of no value.

John Bunyan

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#11. Do I know I'm right? Judgments aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Tony Blair

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#12. I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

Adrian Rogers

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#13. My point is I know Brandy is maybe probably going to die, but I just can't get into it.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#14. 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.

Alan Dershowitz

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#15. Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

Kent Beck

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#16. Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign to him. He thought of how scared and confused he had been when the battle broke out in the Nest; he was in a different world now.

Jonathan Auxier

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#17. Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.

Czeslaw Milosz

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#18. Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left behind still works. And that's really the horror of it, wouldn't you say? Yes. The exact horror of it.

Stephen King

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#19. If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

Wolfgang Pauli

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#20. When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.

Frank Abagnale

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#21. Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type.

Christopher Hitchens

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#22. You're dressed for dancing," she said in her throaty stage voice.
"Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn't think Merris would like it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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