Quotes of: Error Keyword

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Josiah Royce

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Heather Mills

When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - ...

Jonas Salk

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

David Keene

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors that turn out to be true and errors that turn out to be false (which are most of them). But they both ...

The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

George Ryan

Every error has its excuse.

Polish

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.

Gary Wolf

Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.

Michio Kaku

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

Henri Poincare

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

William Law

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Robert Jackson

I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to understand too much, Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect.. Never to the defect of demanding of the World That it be anything th...

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

One moment's error becomes a lifetime of sadness.

Chinese

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Paul Brown

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Killosophy

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mahatma Gandhi