Quotes by Errors Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. George E. P. Box errors remember science If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion. Georg C. Lichtenberg errors race teacher The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error. Gautama Buddha errors evil lying There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. George Gillespie errors ignorance men It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. Georg C. Lichtenberg errors children fall Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. George Henry Lewes weakness errors strength Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. George Herbert faults errors truth The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error. George Bernard Shaw confusing errors race Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. George Iles upset errors science Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it. George Iles errors truth science The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it. George M. Whitesides errors reading simple Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth. George Perkins Marsh errors truth science I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error. George Rodger errors cutting self I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. George Ryan death-penalty errors guilt Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates. George Ryan punishment errors animal I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. George Ryan support errors thinking Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions. George Sarton errors mistake men All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed! George Eliot furniture errors writing Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error. George Soros investing errors rooms My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors. George Soros insecurity ready errors «2627282930313233343536»
