Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.

In these matters, as often in our culture, it is far, far better to be wrong in a respectable way than to be right for the wrong reasons.

It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right — especially when one is right.

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.

I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Better “wrong” alone than “right” with the herd.