Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot… — Usama Fayyad Copy Share Image
Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
Any time that there are policy errors, that is what macro funds live for. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. — Richard Mant Copy Share Image
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
