Proven Wrong Quotes

• To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.

  Peter Joseph

  Understanding, Levels, Awareness

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• When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

  Donald Johanson

  Scientist, Proven

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Nuclear, Investing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1932.

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

  John Langdon-Davies

  Energy, Atoms, Nuclear

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• The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

  William D. Leahy

  War, Experts, Bombs

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• 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

  Mother, Baby, Whales

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• 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

  Thinking, Special, Impossible

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• As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Believe, Bail, Santa

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• 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

  Believe, World, Affirmation

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• 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

  Character, Numbers, Stories

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• 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

  Waiting, Looks, Next

  Jillian Lauren (2011). “Pretty: A Novel”, p.101, Penguin

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• 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

  People, Way, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Data

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• 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

  Media, Tools, Social Transformation

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• 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

  Morning, America, Wake Up

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• It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

  Larry Wilmore

  Discovery, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  World, Moments, So Sad

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2006). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, p.269, Penguin UK

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• Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

  Isaac Marion

  Dark, Doctors, Age

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Doubt, Rising, Each Day

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.219, Macmillan

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• 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

  Religious, Science, Loss

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• 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

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Opportunity

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