“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be forced to weasel out with 'But I didn’t really mean that.' Social theorists should prefer to be wrong rather than misunderstood. Being misunderstood shows sloppy theoretical work.”
“I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.”
“I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.”
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
“I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.”