# Landau's comment on validity of Goldbach's conjecture

Edmund Landau had once put forth the following statement about the validity of the Goldbach conjecture.

"the goldbach conjecture is false for at most 0 % of all even integers ; this at most 0 % does not exclude, however the possibility that there are infinitely many exceptions"

I have not understood the essence of the statement, like for an ordinary novice student like me, the two statements appear contradicting, whilst they appear to make perfect sense for a number theorist. Can anyone please help me with the understanding of the essence of this statement?

Consider this statement: $0\%$ of all natural numbers are powers of $2$. It is true, in this sense: if, for each natural $n$, you compute the proportion $p_n$ of powers of $2$ in $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$, then $\lim_{n\to\infty}p_n=0$. But that does not mean that no natural number is a power of $2$.
There are infinitely many numbers of the form $10^k$ - a $1$ followed by some number of zeroes. Among the first $10$ numbers there are just $2$. Among the first $100$ numbers there are just three. Among the first $1000$, four. That pattern continues, so the fraction of all numbers of that form might reasonably be said to be $0$, even though there are infinitely many of them.