“The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.” IfsMeanTruthScienceProcessFreedomMistakeScientistFunctionErrorsCoreFraud Author:Robert Pollack
“Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.” WellsMeanDoeMadeBodyAgeLawDiesFailingEternalSkinsFunctionErrorsPhysicsCellsGenesOrgansOne WordEternal LifeLaws Of PhysicsSluggish Author:Michio Kaku
“For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the preservation of 'Christian unity'... It is error which breaks the unity of churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is to support schism.” ChristianChristChurchCommonMoralBreakSupportDisciplineMembersFunctionGuiltUnionsErrorsUnityAssociationMinistryFulfillingPreservationLinkedPowerlessJustifiedAlignmentHereticSchismChristian Unity Author:Charles Haddon
“The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.” AnimalBrainFunctionErrorsRateGuesswork Author:Usama Fayyad
“Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.” ShouldTryingEnoughAnswersMistakeGeniusFunctionErrorsDefinedDataStatisticsThinkerGlimpseFlawedAccuracyRight Answers Author:Kathryn Schulz
“With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.” NeedsHumansMayNaturalEventsAnxietyFunctionThreatErrorsAvailableMortalitySpectacularNatural PhenomenaHuman Error Author:Will Self
“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.” PeopleIfsLanguageTalkingClearCommunicationTerribleOppositesLet MeFunctionErrorsGrammarTransparentCorrectingFacilitateClear Communication Author:John Green
“It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” GovernmentFallCommunityLibertySocietyCitizensFunctionErrorsLibertarianCitizenshipFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyLimited GovernmentLimited FreedomAmerica FreedomDrug ProhibitionControlling GovernmentJustice Truth Author:Robert H. Jackson
“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.” IfsMayMeanCertainAnimalTeachEffectsCircumstancesFunctionErrorsInstinctCoffeeTeaDisadvantagesDaily Experience Book:Mrs Beeton's Household Management Source: Mrs Beeton's Household Management