“Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Maxim 715, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
Source: More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
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