Quotes

Kepler undertook to draw a curve through the places of Mars; and his greatest service to science was in impressing on men’s minds that this was the thing to be done if they wished to improve astronomy; that they were not to content themselves with inquiring whether one system of epicyces was better than another but that they were to sit down by the figures and find out what the curve, in truth, was. 

C.S. Peirce, Collected Papers (ed. By C. Hartshorne and P. Weiss), Vol V.; preserved in Copi, Readings on Logic, p 63.

There is no virtue in being clever, if by being clever we are merely being wrong. 

W.S. LaSor, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, p 27.