Error Quotes

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. — Jean Rostand
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without… — William Kingdon Clifford
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth. — George Perkins Marsh
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in… — Roger Bacon
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects… — Blaise Pascal
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to… — Denis Diderot
If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and… — Alexandra Guarnaschelli
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do… — Richard Hamming
Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence?… — Alexander Hamilton
When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with… — John Fogerty
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a… — Lyman Bryson
To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. — Janet Coleman
Copy and paste is a design error. — David Parnas
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred… — Magnus Hirschfeld
In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell… — Jesse L. Greenstein
There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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