"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last." ― Hugh Walpole Topic(s): Science More From Hugh Walpole "Happiness comes from… some curious adjustment to life." More In Science "I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science."― Joseph Rotblat "I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort."― Fred Saberhagen "You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."― Marilyn Hacker