We magnify the tiniest wrong we've done to Burj Khalifa proportions.
But Roland Barthes is one per cent wrong, too; and, like the one per cent that separates us genetically from chimpanzees, Barthes's tiny wrongness is quite large.
Brodsky's skepticism does not imply that the connection between bobbling mountains and tiny earthquakes is wrong; only that it hasn't been proved robustly yet.
We plan our experiments scrupulously, and if one tiny element goes wrong, we curse ourselves for not being more careful.
Moreover, neuroscience was working at the wrong level: tiny neuronal structures were just too distant, conceptually, from the macroscopic components of thought, things like emotions and beliefs.
A couple of weeks ago, the spacecraft, whose name translates as "Falcon", released its tiny lander at the wrong time, sending it floating off into eternity instead of hopping about on asteroid Itokawa which, not coincidentally, is named after Hideo Itokawa, the founder of Japan's space programme.
Since 1968 – and to this day – he has been busy in his basement home-taping an endless stream of eccentric, off-brand pop, apparently trying to copy the hits he heard on the radio and getting it all just a tiny, lovely little bit wrong.
"These are such small changes, but the nervous system cares when you get the movements wrong by tiny amounts," Ostry says.
Another way to knot the thread at the end is to take a tiny stitch on the wrong side, pull it almost down to the fabric, and then put the threaded needle through the loop before pulling it tight.
Most of them are tiny, dark, lonely and the wrong temperature.
