Quotes by Errors Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. Georges Canguilhem errorsignorancereality To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. Georges Canguilhem persisterrorshumans No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. Georges Duhamel truth-iserrorsdoubt It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it. George Washington guiltycrimeerrors Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. George Sand unrequited-loveerrorslove-is The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science George Santayana errorsrunningscience Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. Gerald of Wales errorswisemen To err is nature, to rectify error is glory. George Washington errorsglorymistake Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. Gerd Gigerenzer informationriskerrors Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. George Sand weederrorsheart The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter. Gideon Welles errorsheartwar Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock. Gil Amelio hemlockerrorsdone Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere. Gian-Carlo Rota errorsrunningscience Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth. Gilbert K. Chesterton errors We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington 4th-of-julyerrorspast Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. George Eliot errorsfaithfeelings Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things. Gladys Mitchell interferenceerrorsseems Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. George Eliot errorsmistakemean A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case that show that the program works correctly. Glenford Myers programtestserrors We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that were made because we rushed through the design process Glenford Myers design-processrushingerrors«2728293031323334353637»
