Quotes by Errors If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination. Richard Hofstadter incompetenceerrorsimagination Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers Ralph Waldo Emerson clotheserrorscities Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. Richard Mant seductionerrorsopinion If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. Richard P. Feynman certainerrorsscience Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation. Richard Russo foundationerrorsstories If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. Richard P. Feynman errorsmayscience The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with Richard P. Feynman errorsgovernmentrunning There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely clear in their error and their stupidity, and so you can really go after them. Richard Dawkins stupidityerrorsmean To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism. Ralph Waldo Emerson errorsmistakebelieve Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table. Ralph Waldo Emerson errorseverydayprofound The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error. Richard Whately supporterrorsparty The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it. Richard Whately errorsfactsfall About the prophecy that Rachel did at the end of "The Last Olympian," Percy Jackson will participate this prophecy, along with Annabeth? Sorry for spelling errors Rick Riordan annabetherrorssorry Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson errorsencouragementnature The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language. Ralph Waldo Emerson excesserrorsreligious Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression. Robbie Coltraine errorsexpressionthinking Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious. Robert Andrews Millikan errorstwoscience Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. Robert Burchfield miraculouscomputererrors There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death and creates more stress and appeals, even as it is plagued by serious error. Each new exoneration reminds us of the unacceptable possibility of wrongful execution. Robert Cecil Martin growingerrorsstress Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise Robert Browning wallerrorsbelieve«6869707172737475767778»
