314 Quotes About Error

You pay full price for each error.You pay full price for each faultYou pay full price for each inaccuracyYou pay full price for each omissionYou pay full price for each slipYou pay full price for each blunderYou pay full price for each miscalculationYou pay full price for each misunderstandingYou pay full price for each flawYou pay full price for each oversightYou pay full price for each misinterpretationYou pay full price for each fallacy.

To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the dispenser?""More than possible. Likely.

Life corrects the errors of logic.

I will always err on side of tolerance.

The wrong step becomes the right step once you take it.

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.

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.

Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

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.