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“But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)”

Thinking Years Two Might Today Together Science Results Numbers Subjects Years Ago Skins Agree Add Errors Average Divides Mathematician Friction

Author:Hiram Maxim

“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”

Facts Science Results Errors Absence Arise Data Reasoning

Book:On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged

Source: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged

“How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons”

Reason Results Wonder Mankind Judgment Errors Ignorant

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.”

Source: The federalist papers

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.”

Men Would Be Results Imagine Failing Errors Congress Etc Monstrous Defenders Encyclopedia Pascal Cromwell Montesquieu

Author:Lord Acton

“Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.”

Form Results Steps Theory Failure Errors Trials Charm Steady Tempting Latent Detection Steps To Success

Book:Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England

Source: Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England

“Many a truth is the result of an error.”

Truth Results Truth Is Errors

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.”

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

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

“Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.”

Thinking Pain Results Errors Painful

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.”

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections