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• The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

  Georg Brandes

  Truth, Humanity, Inheritance

  "Ferdinand Lassalle". Book by Georg Brandes, 1881.

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

  Karl Popper

  Inspirational, Dream, Ideas

  1960 Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.

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• Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Together, Deeds

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1929). “My confession; My religion; The Gospel in brief”

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• Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Enquiry, Inquiry, Agents

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Truth, Science

  "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.

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• There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

  Louis Aragon

  Mistake, Eye, Men

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• No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mistake, Law, Persist

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.150, Hackett Publishing

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• It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mistake, Character, Judgement

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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• The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

  Honore de Balzac

  Spring, Mistake

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• The error of our eye directs our mind.
  What error leads must err.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Mind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1980, Oxford University Press

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• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Lying, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species'

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• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

  Charles Babbage

  Failure, Mathematical Logic, Data

  Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

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• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Confusion, Transition, Decay

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

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• Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Long, Use

  1905 Heretics, ch.13.

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• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 238, 1932.

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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

  Florence King

  Dream, Mistake, Native American

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

  Jean Rostand

  Beautiful, Regret, Mistake

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Hallucinations, Facts

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress ... And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.

  Karl Popper

  Dream, Mistake, Learning

  1960 Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.

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• They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

  Edmund Burke

  Failure, Political, Liberty

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

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• Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

  Louis Aragon

  Truth, May, Said

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• There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Science, Doubt, Inquiry

  "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett in Life Magazine, Volume 7, No. 9, International Edition (p. 58), October 24, 1949.

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• There is no original truth, only original error.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Truth, Mistake, Originals

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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