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• The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

  D. A. Carson

  Matter, Way, Scripture

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

  Julia Stiles

  Careers, Trial And Error, Looks

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

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• That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

  Shawn Johnson

  Sports, Drama, Anything Can Happen

  "Shawn Johnson gets more nervous watching Olympic Trials than she did competing". Interview with Maggie Hendricks, ftw.usatoday.com. July 27, 2016.

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• Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.37, 谷月社

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• The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Religion, Statistics

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life. Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honest to choose the right.

  Arthur Trudeau

  Nature, Honesty, Character

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• It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.

  Lord Acton

  Knowledge, Passion, Science

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.

  George Biddell Airy

  Science, Moon, Two

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• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  Raymond Aron

  Optimism, Intelligence, Intellectual

  Raymond Aron (2017). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.156, Routledge

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• Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Soccer, Running, Football

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• Errors are many, truth is unique.

  Pyotr Kapitsa

  Unique, Truth Is

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• You'll laugh at the comedy of errors that is my life.

  Bret Michaels

  Laughing, Comedy

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• The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When you correct a fact, what you do is you further lodge that fact into people's minds, and they remember the error.

  David Brooks

  Memories, Ideas, People

  "Shields and Brooks on high stakes for debate moderators, a dead heat in the polls". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 9, 2016.

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• If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.

  Rene Descartes

  Clarity, Judgment, Cases

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.

  Rene Descartes

  Essence, May, Faults

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.

  Ernest Sosa

  Perception, Pieces, Certain

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Appreciate, Fundamentals

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker as well as the target. And threats are now mounting, particularly at the Russian border, confirming the prediction of George Kennan and other prominent figures that NATO expansion, particularly the way it was undertaken, would prove to be a "tragic mistake," a "policy error of historic proportions."

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mistake, Winter

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Ideas, Trial And Error, Trials

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Thoughtful, Doubt, Trial And Error

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.

  Allen W. Wood

  Believe, Views, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Objectifying, Action, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.

  Bill Mollison

  Design, Type, Ifs

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• In the one-on-one it is going to be harder for [Donald] Trump to get away from those sorts of things because there will be more opportunities for Hillary [Clinton] to follow up on those sorts of things. And I also think to your previous point, I think she really does need to induce errors from him because the biggest hazard to Hillary Clinton is that Trump could clear the low bar of acceptability in debate.

  Josh Barro

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Some people have set up sort of "gotcha" algorithms that apparently crawl through psychology articles and look for fraudulent p-values [a measure of the likelihood that experimental results weren't a fluke]. But they're including rounding errors that don't change the significance levels of the results, and they're doing it anonymously.

  Susan Fiske

  People, Psychology, Levels

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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