Quotes of: Human-error Keyword

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

George Bernard Shaw

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

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

... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

Floriano Martins

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Henry Rollins

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

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

Eliot Spitzer

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Zadie Smith

If the eternal Son could become fully human without sin (Heb 4:15), then surely God can communicate his truth through thoroughly human ambassadors while preserving their writings from error.

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

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

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity ...

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

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

Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him w...

God in the Dark

Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.

The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Foundation and Empire