Howard Gruber Quote

The power and the beauty of science do not rest upon infallibility, which it has not, but on corrigibility, without which it is nothing.


The Origin of "The Origin of Species", The New York Times Book Review, 22 July, 1979 (p. 7)


The power and the beauty of science do not rest upon infallibility, which it has not, but on corrigibility, without which it is nothing.

The power and the beauty of science do not rest upon infallibility, which it has not, but on corrigibility, without which it is nothing.

The power and the beauty of science do not rest upon infallibility, which it has not, but on corrigibility, without which it is nothing.

The power and the beauty of science do not rest upon infallibility, which it has not, but on corrigibility, without which it is nothing.