Error Quotes

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.”

“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.”

“Error is truth, it is partial truth, that is mistaken for the whole truth.”

“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

“It was the first time I'd actually made a forecast in my life that went so dramatically wrong.”

“Go and shake a tower.”

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

“Discussion: a method of confirming others in their errors.”

“The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer.”

“Error runs down an inclined plane, while truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill.”

“It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when one is surrounded by people who have never heard of weights and measures.”

“There's not a more important right than the right to be wrong.”

“You have hissed all my mystery lectures.”

“Obscurity is the realm of error.”

“People are conditioned to believe that error is inevitable.”

“Most of the mistakes in thinking are mistakes in perception.”

“A little truth is better than a great deal of error.”

“Error is on the march, and it is for truth to follow it, however slowly, and destroy its works.”