# Quote — Greg Craven, What's the Worst That Could Happen?

> As much as we think science is about being right, the actual practice of the stuff is largely focused on being wrong.
>
> Why? Because being open to the possibility that you might be wrong is exactly how you get less wrong over time, sort of like saying “I’d better find all the holes in my argument before someone else can." Strangely, the way to make your ideas stronger is to try to break them. Looking for errors in your understanding rather than just trying to find supporting evidence is the best way to improve your ideas.

- Author: [Greg Craven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven.md)
- Book: [What's the Worst That Could Happen?](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen.md)
- Page: 47
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greg_Craven#What's_the_Worst_That_Could_Happen%3F:_A_Rational_Response_to_the_Climate_Change_Debate_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/as-much-as-we-think

## More from this book

> New breakthrough technologies can make it easier, but we've already got, right now, everything we need to accomplish the task of transforming our energy economy away from fossil fuels. Except the willingness.

p. 218 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/new-breakthrough-technologies.md)

> Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief select evidence.

p. 206 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/try-to-keep.md)

> The clever part is that it changes the question from, Who should I believe? to, What should I do? After all, the physical world is unaffected by our beliefs. It reacts only to our actions.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/the-clever-part.md)