Accurate Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we…

— Steven Weinberg

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

— Richard P. Feynman

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

— Anonymous

How is error possible in mathematics?

— Henri Poincare

How is an error possible in mathematics?

— Henri Poincare

“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”

— Gerd Gigerenzer

Why speculate when you can calculate?

— John C. Baez

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

— Freeman Dyson

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to…

— Jules Verne

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk…

— Antoine Lavoisier