Quotes by Errors Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself. William Kingdon Clifford errorstruthscience No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. William L. Shirer errorspartyresponsibility Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. William Least Heat-Moon errorsjoydiscovery If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations. William Makepeace Thackeray errorsmenworld If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human. William Mulholland judgmenterrorshumans I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. William P. Leahy hierarchyforgivenesserrors Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is William Osler errorsgentlemanhalf No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well. William P. Leahy errorslightorganization The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise. William Shawcross errorspowerfulamerica In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number. William Stanley Jevons errorsrunningphilosophy It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. William Shakespeare errorsmoonmen Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error. William Thoms errorsdesiretrying Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas. William Thurston errorsmaththinking In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? William Shakespeare ornamentsatheismerrors Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth. William Whewell failureerrorstrials Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. William Whewell errorsexcellencetrials Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise. William Zinsser vaguenessmarketingerrors So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. William Shakespeare errorssimplelaw Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue. Woody Allen errorslifefunny There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. Winston Churchill avoidedvirtueerrors«8384858687888990919293»
