I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense.
Robert G. IngersollGarbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
Nick HarkawayTags: error metaphors government nonsense gigo
To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the dispenser?"
"More than possible. Likely.
Tags: error law government stupid idiocy structure system
Doing something wrong repeatedly does not make it right.
Tim FargoTags: error wrong right repetition
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.
Steve AllenTags: truth error existence opposition importance important
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.
François MagendieTags: life truth error progress biology determinism freedom nature materialism laws idea minds phenomena audacious physiology lack-of-free-will organs
Believe truth! Shun error!-these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole intellectual life. We may regard the chase for truth as paramount, and the avoidance of error as secondary; or we may, on the other hand, treat the avoidance of error as more imperative, and let truth take its chance.
William JamesA vida e curta demais para cometer o mesmo erro duas vezes
Claire CrossTruth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Samuel JohnsonScience, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
Jules VerneTags: error discovery errors voyage discoveries jack-goldenberg
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