Trial and error Quote by Gregory Benford

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

— Freeman Dyson

“It is often precisely these irresolvable issues that arouse our most impassioned certainty that we are right and our adversaries are wrong. To my…

— Kathryn Schulz

“I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.”

— James Cambias

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

— James Madison

“An error is not a mistake unless you refuse to correct it”

— Tricycle Driver

“A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“When a machine does a mistake, it’s not a mistake, something is wrong. When human do mistakes, it is a mistake, but nothing wrong.”

— Zisha Schnitzler

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

— John Locke

“And in the long run, research shows that the mistakes we regret are not errors of commission, but errors of omission. If we could…

— Adam M. Grant

“Disclaimer: Consider all perceived errors and scrutinize all self-evident truths.”

— Adam Scott Huerta