A theorist goes astray in two ways: 1) The devil leads him by the nose with a false hypothesis. (For this he deserves our pity.) 2) His arguments are erroneous and sloppy. (For this he deserves a beating.)

This 1915 quote reiterates Einstein’s feeling that failure is perfectly acceptable. It’s shoddy work that science won’t tolerate.

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