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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the… — Andre Gide
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one… — Thomas Jefferson
...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a proofreader… — Mark Twain
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as… — James Madison
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe,… — Tertullian
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. — Frank Wilczek
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character. — William Westmoreland
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical… — Albert Claude
The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a… — Felix Dennis
You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you. — Dorothy Rowe
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of… — Louis Pasteur
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble
It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science… — Wernher von Braun
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is… — Karl Popper
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are. — Alexander Hamilton

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