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Errors Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to…
- Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
- Error itself may be happy chance.
- Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
- The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
- Error is the price we pay for progress.
- 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…
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- 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
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your… — Francis Bacon
- The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only… — John J. Pershing