Appearance Quote by Walter Raleigh

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows…

— Bertrand Russell

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

— Aldous Huxley

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines…

— Baruch Spinoza

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the…

— Anonymous

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

— George Iles

Many a truth is the result of an error.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

— Benjamin Wiker

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

— Carl Gustav Jung

“We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need…

— Walter Kirn

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller