Quotes About Error

The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through