Stephen Jay Gould Quote

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.


Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History (ed. Harmony, 1998)


Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.