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Error Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems…
- Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.…
- 'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is…
- Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly…
- In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the…
- The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a…
- One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad…
- The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as…
- Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
More Error Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your… — Francis Bacon
- We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the… — Joko Beck
- Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is… — Hans-Peter Durr
- Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to… — Aristotle
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood