Hawks Incorrect Quotes

What should you do when you find you have made a mistake like that? Some people never admit that they are wrong and continue to find new, and often mutually inconsistent, arguments to support their case—as Eddington did in opposing black hole theory. Others claim to have never really supported the incorrect view in the first place or, if they did, it was only to show that it was inconsistent. It seems to me much better and less confusing if you admit in print that you were wrong. A good example of this was Einstein, who called the cosmological constant, which he introduced when he was trying to make a static model of the universe, the biggest mistake of his life.

It struck Ronan that he didn't want Adam to go. For many reasons: beginning with the bad feeling of that scream, proceeding to the way his body would miss Adam's when he curled in his bed, and finishing with the knowledge that something big and unknown lurked out there, unseeable to his dreamer's eyes, seeable to Adam's uncanny ones. It seemed incorrect that Adam visiting would have made his loneliness worse, but he missed him acutely even as he was looking at him.