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People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America… — Richard Dawkins
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and… — Max Born
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. — Adrian Rogers
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. — Karl Popper
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. — Eric Sevareid
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. — Blaise Pascal
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the… — Tryon Edwards
There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and… — Dale Carnegie
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing… — Abraham Lincoln
...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without… — Andrew Jackson
But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the… — Trevor Baylis
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal… — Margaret Fuller
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where… — William Hazlitt
Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new… — Che Guevara

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