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“The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.”

Universe Principles Errors Accidents Persistent

Author:Frank Herbert

“Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.”

Source: The Analytical Theory of Heat

“We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.”

Mind May Action Fall Memories Known Principles Mankind Taught Errors Sentences Remembered Folly Contracts Impressed Recollection Benefactors Rules Of Life

Book:The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

“I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.”

Principles Mankind Errors Mischief Inception

Author:Jasper Fforde

“There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.”

Political Politics Principles Errors Infinity Adopted

Author:Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

“Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.”

Law Justice Principles Progress Development Succeed Eternal Prejudice Errors Contrary Doctrine Immortal

Book:Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

Source: Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman

“In every principle presented to us, our first inquiry should be, "Is it true?" "Does it emanate from God?" If he is its Author it can be sustained just as much as any other truth in natural philosophy; if false it should be opposed and exposed just as much as any other error.”

Ifs Should Firsts Doe Philosophy Truth Natural Principles Errors Exposed Inquiry Emanate Natural Philosophy

Author:John Taylor

“Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.”

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.”

“I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.”

People May Moments Found Principles Army Institutions Errors Being The Best Governors Good Sense

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design of the Almighty on the one hand and that of Lucifer on the other. For that reason, we desperately need moral men and women who stand on principle, to be involved in the political process. Otherwise, we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.”

Men Needs Reason Hands Political Process Moral Principles Design Involved Battle Men And Women Errors Selfish Intense Almighty Lucifer

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley