“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
“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.”
“It's the little mistakes that lead to big mistakes.”
“Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.”
“In science, mistakes always precede the truth.”
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”