[Retric]

That only seems true with hindsight bias, as distinguished elderly scientists are most memorable when they are wrong. Being right 99.9% of the time would not be enough if there are millions of you and people only care about a few quotes.

Granted, you can't be proved correct if you say some action is impossible as someone can always wait to see if you're wrong.

[coldtea]

Or you know, that is a BS quote, extrapolating from too few historical examples (and even them, not understood well), and not some scientific law.