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“It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have got mixed up with truth, have delayed the knowledge of it, and retarded its progress; and, after having followed the various epochs and traversed every climate, finally to contemplate the edifice founded on the labours of successive centuries and of various nations.”

Self Together Science Nations Interesting Progress Century Discovery Errors Climate Various Connected Astronomy Labour Contemplating Transport Delayed Retarded Edifice

Author:Jean Sylvain Bailly

“Progress is the exploration of our own error.”

Progress Errors Exploration

Book:The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination

Source: The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination

“I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.”

People Thinking Feels Trying Persons Long I Can Deals Progress One Thing Comfortable Errors Patient Downfall Patient Person

Author:Phil Jackson

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.”

Men May Progress Errors Yesterday Wiser Wisest Morrow Prerogative Wisest Man Omniscience

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.”

Knows Men Should Mind Truth Purpose Common Progress Example Moon Disease Seasons Errors Curiosity Determine Curious Chiefs Motive Etc Restless Malady Seasons Change

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.”

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.”

Science Progress Errors Trials Forbidden Trial And Error

Book:Economic philosophy

Source: Economic philosophy

“Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.”

Long Reason Teach Teacher Progress Subjects Taught Intellectual Errors Mere Critics Resistance Doctrine Professors Reverence Long Life Procedures Pupils Knocking Inertia

Author:Joan Robinson

“Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.”

Enough Progress Generations Theory Errors Arise Allowing Convincing Enough Time New Generation

Author:Max Planck

“It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.”

Progress Depends Errors Trials Recognizing Trial And Error

Book:The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

Source: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.”

“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

“The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.”

Men Enough Government Natural Powerful Effort Progress Conditions Constant Errors Investing Improvement Every Man Administration Spite Uniforms Extravagance

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?”

Source: Christian Missions, Their Place in India

“Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress.”

Needs Humans Government Church Our Lives Progress Balance Demand Aspect Ideals Program Errors Destroyed Instance Counterparts Human Progress Contingency

Author:Dean L. Larsen

“Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over”

Force Effort Vision Careers Path Progress Products Mets Forgiving Errors Insight Genuine Resistance Remarkable Mediocrity Career Path Backing Down

Book:Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012

Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012

“It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.”

Men Want Mind Ideas Science Passion Secret Knowledge Progress Development Discovery Logic Property Errors Mysterious Ministers Sparks Demonstration Charter

Book:Lectures on Modern History

Source: Lectures on Modern History

“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.”

Action Fear Change Vision Progress Flow Errors Trials Reactions Rhythm Trial And Error Ebb And Flow Action And Reaction Over Confidence

Author:Bruce Barton

“I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.”

Courses Force Lines Justice Path Taken Progress Mercy Errors Injustice Cruelty Straight Lines Justice And Injustice Conflicting Ideas

Book:Out of the house of bondage

Source: Out of the house of bondage