Ernest Rutherford
Sixtus V, Pope from 1585 to 1590 authorized a printing of the
Vulgate Bible. Taking no chances, the pope issued a papal bull
automatically excommunicating any printer who might make an
alteration in the text. This he ordered printed at the beginning
of the Bible. He personally examined every sheet as it came off
the press. Yet the published Vulgate Bible contained so many
errors that corrected scraps had to be printed and pasted over them
in every copy. The result provoked wry comments on the rather
patchy papal infallibility, and Pope Sixtus had no recourse but to
order the return and destruction of every copy. The only possible
interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences'
is: some do, some don't.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in
the social sciences is: Some do, some don't.