Errors Quotes

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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
When truth is divided, errors multiply. — Eli Siegel
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of… — William Bayliss
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault
Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say.… — Ed Koch
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
Inborn errors of metabolism. — Archibald Garrod
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at… — Torbern Bergman
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In… — James Hutton
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to… — Paul Halmos
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of… — Henry Augustus Rowland
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the… — Charles-Francois Dupuis
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical… — Victor J. Stenger
Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences.… — Carol Tavris
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard… — Mahatma Gandhi
Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country… — George S. Patton
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar… — Nikola Tesla

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