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" I had, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail, and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from memory than favorable ones." (Charles Darwin) (p.131 f) "

Kathryn Schulz , Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error


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Kathryn Schulz quote : I had, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail, and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from memory than favorable ones.