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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

“Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...”

Feelings Simple Subjects Errors Mortals Guidance Feeling Alone

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.”

“L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.”

Men Able Natural Grace Subjects Errors

Author:Blaise Pascal

“NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.”

Mind Action Young Lying Subjects Thousand Models Errors Active Archetype Dormant Power Of The Mind Young Minds

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“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

“Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error.”

Wells Opinion Subjects Errors Seduction

Author:Richard Mant

“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

“I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.”

Ifs Should Humans Littles Important Interest Existence Subjects Errors Proportion Tragic Human Existence

Author:Steve Allen

“No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.”

Certain Views Subjects Errors Superficial Proceeding Hasty

Book:Letters and Other Writings of James Madison

Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison

“No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.”

“Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?”

Should Years Millions Subjects Color Proud Involved Twenties Errors Noble Doctrine Should I Mathematician Be Proud Newton Calculators

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe