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Mistake Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:…
- We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing…
- Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly…
- Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
- The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's…
- Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better…
- Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an…
More Mistake Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'. — John Ashcroft
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. — Alfred Austin
- There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we… — Richard Bach