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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“To deprive a man of the right to error is to deprive him of the right to truth.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“We are heroes in error.”

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

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

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

“Obscurity is the realm of error.”

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

“There is a saying that 'to err is human.' But the media is not a human being. It is a system.”