Scientific advancement carries risk,— Kohler argued. "It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine" they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake."Vittoria was amazed at Kohler's ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. "You think CERN is so critical to the earth's future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

I hate all bungling like sin, but most of all bungling in state affairs, which produces nothing but mischief to thousands and millions.

It is worse than a crime: it is-a blunder.

Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.