Class Quote by Otto E. Neugebauer

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

— James Madison

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every…

— Agatha Christie

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a…

— William Hazlitt

“There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to…

— Alan Greenspan

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

— Walter Gilbert

“Printing mistakes adds value because of the probability calculus, which makes their intrusion into something problematic and almost impossible, even when everything's conceived, precisely,…

— Romain Gary

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

— Tamora Pierce

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear…

— Anonymous

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

— Walter Lippmann

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

— Isaac

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney