“People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.” PeopleMadeEnoughCausesCan DoRealizingNumbersMistakeCareersSuccessfulAccountsStartingProbabilityForecastsSuccessful Career Author:Alan Greenspan
“State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.” StatesWould BeForceMistakeMoralVirtueLogicAccountsVicesCorruptionInnocentVulnerableFeaturesMotiveCensorshipMentalityProtectedParanoidSubversionCensoringInsincereMoral Corruption Author:J. M. Coetzee
“How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.” ThinkingWorldTryingParentMistakeSituationThis WorldTheoryAccountsHorriblePhenomenonMurdererManson Author:James Hillman
“I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.” ShouldMadeTwoMistakeResponsibilityOfficeAccountsTaking ResponsibilityMade A MistakeI Made A Mistake Author:Hillary Clinton
“What I did was permitted. My emails went to state.gov accounts. I did what I did, and I've said that it was a mistake. I've tried to do the best I could to get that information out to people.” PeopleSaidStatesMistakeInformationAccountsEmailDo The Best Author:Hillary Clinton
“I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.” IfsKnowsImportantSeemsScienceHumanityMistakeAccountsImportanceChemistryMistaken Author:Samuel Hahnemann
“When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.” IfsMenActionSufferingLostLosesMistakeQualityCourageFourFailingConditionsRegretFoolBattleRespectAccountsAbsolutesDefeatWideAwakeFulfilledAssurancePitifulWide Awake Author:Carlos Castaneda
“If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.” IfsYearsMeanDoeTwoStatesScienceLyingCoursesViewsMistakeChristianityThousandConflictAccountsStrivePoint Of ViewLiarsPerpetualThousand YearsScience And ReligionMomentaryGood Faith Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944 Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944
“Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among ends that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scientific considerations. If a man were to say, "I hate the human race, and I think it would be a good thing if it were exterminated," we could say, "Well, my dear sir, let us begin the process with you." But this is hardly argument, and no amount of science could prove such a man mistaken.” IfsThinkingMenHumansWellsMayEndsShowsWould BeScienceHateChoicesGivenProcessDecisionRaceMistakeAchieveAmountProveAchievementEthicsArgumentDecidedAccountsI HateGood ThingsDearHuman RaceConsiderationMistakenOur Choices Author:Bertrand Russell
“In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell you. Go and find it out for yourself. That same error has persisted in my life and in many other people's. Authorities are not always authorities on everything; they often cling to their own mistakes.” PeopleBelieveProblemScienceSpaceMistakeAuthorityAccountsFundamentalsErrorsTransparent Author:Jesse L. Greenstein
“Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to mistake a fancy for a fact. Geologists, in particular, have very frequently amused themselves in this way, and it is not a little amusing to follow them in their fancies and their waking dreams. Geology, indeed, in this view, may be called a romantic science.” PeopleIfsWayWellsMayLittlesSometimesFactsDreamRomanceScienceImaginationViewsMistakeCasesParticularAccountsPhilosopherFancyWakingAmusingAmusedGeologyGeologist Author:Granville Penn