One of the most significant intellectual errors educated persons make is in underestimating the fallibility of science. The very best scientific theories containing our soundest, most reliable knowledge are certain to be superseded, recategorized from “right” to “wrong”; they are, as physicist David Deutsch says, misconceptions: I have often thought that the nature of science would be better understood if we called theories “misconceptions” from the outset, instead of only after w...
