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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong. -- Donald Johanson
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong. -- Nathan Myhrvold
To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. -- Peter Joseph
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong. -- Brandon Sanderson
Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong. -- Isaac Marion
I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile. -- Brandon Sanderson
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. -- Charles Stross
People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong. -- Stuart Wilde
I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong. -- Jillian Lauren
I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage). -- Charles Stross
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. -- Daniel Handler
But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way. -- Rebecca Skloot
I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America. -- Tim Lee
If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong. -- Bob Brown
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. -- Simon Mainwaring
If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life [than a non-believer]. -- Woody Allen
The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding. -- Peter Joseph
Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles. -- Nathan Seiberg
Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. -- Gregory Maguire
I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again. -- Steve Hamilton
Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. -- Karen E. Quinones Miller
A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God. -- Jerry Lee Lewis
I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist. -- Ilona Andrews
I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer. -- John Mackey
If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong. -- Kinky Friedman

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