Quotes About Error

The most common error a person tends to commit in pie making is to fail to let it cool in fresh air. If you cut into it straight out of the oven, the juice runs everywhere. People have no patience when it comes to pies.

So the aim is to minimize repetition as much as possible, by having an eye for consistent psychological and technical themes of error.

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Pero todos comparten la misma falla trágica; todos tuvieron la opción de salvarse y tomaron el camino de la catástrofe; y sus novelas son dedicados estudios de ese largo error y de sus consecuencias.

Hagas lo que hagas, te equivocarás. Y cuando crezca, te echará la culpa de todos sus problemas y defectos

Tengo muy claro que lo que estoy cometiendo es un error muy grande. Que saber demasiado es incompatible con la felicidad.

En los espacios de inteligencia colectiva parece triunfar, por el contrario, el principio popperiano de la "revolución permanente", de la falibilidad y la apertura, en cuanto que, como espacios sociales abiertos, asumen en su funcionamiento estos principios: aunque es imposible evitar todo error, se debe ser veraz; no hay ninguna autoridad; cuatro ojos ven más que dos; y el testado crítico de toda propuesta es una necesidad

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

El lienzo es del siglo XIII o XIV, entre 1260 y 1390, y lo dictaminaron tres laboratorios distintos. La probabilidad de error es del cinco por ciento. La Iglesia ha aceptado el juicio del carbono 14.

As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.

Hombres. El día que aprendieran a aceptar un error, se convertirían en mujeres.

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No man is infallible.

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

To elude nature, to refuse her friendship, and attempt to leap the river of life in the hope of finding God on the other side, is the common error of a perverted mysticality. It is as fatal in result as the opposite error of deliberately arrested development, which, being attuned to the wonderful rhythms of natural life, is content with this increase of sensibility; and, becoming a "nature-mystic," asks no more.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

My computer displayed the surprising and at least disconcerting following message: "Error. No keyboard. Press F1 to continue!"

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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Ed ella sentiva che era un altro inganno quell'immaginarsi oggetto di attenzione di qualcuno, quella nuova aspettazione di essere capace di vincere la diffidenza che la amareggiava...[...]. Ah, se l'autore di quella rovina avesse potuto leggerle il cuore, vederne lo strazio! [...]. Poi, i rimproveri che rivolgeva verso di lui cadevano anch'essi; ella riconosceva la propria parte d'errore.

The history of all human ideas is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. — SIR KARL POPPER, CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS The

When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is as well to mark their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and auscultation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.