Full Idea
Infallibility in scientific matters seems to me irresistibly comical.
Gist of Idea
Infallibility in science is just a joke
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.3)
Book Reference
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.3
Related Idea
Idea 14770 Reasoning is based on statistical induction, so it can't achieve certainty or precision [Peirce]