Errors Quotes

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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
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. — Rabindranath Tagore
It is often easier to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own. — Clarence H. Burns
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as… — Jay E. Adams
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
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. — Arthur Helps
One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference. — Lisa Fernandez
The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent. — Calvin Trillin
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. — Jan de Hartog
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance. — James Hutton
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation so… — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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