Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be
I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the earth, Sun & all sorts of things-for I think it is the true way (corrected by judgement) to work out a discovery.
If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories. " Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.
Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type. " "You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man," Penny corrected. "Or you're not.
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!" "Roooaaarrr!" "Maybe not," Grover corrected.
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.
Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.
Carter was so taken aback by her attack he dropped his knife. “You knocked him stupid,” he bellowed. “No,” Emily corrected in what she believed was a reasonable tone of voice. “He was already stupid. I knocked him out.
I'm sorry to have to tell you this way, but your mother and I are separating. " When I pressed my mouth together, he corrected, "Stepmother. We're just - We're going in different directions. " "I don't know what to say, Dad. 'Hurray' just seems wrong.
Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.
Teaching others, he corrected himself.
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.
