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It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.

Thomas Huxley
Errors, Sound, Helping
Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 63)
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.