Diederik Stapel (1966) Dutch social psychologist
Stapel's own statement in De Volkskrant on 31 October 2011.
“A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
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