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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
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"And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully."
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"The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss."
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"My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet."
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"Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off."
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"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."
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"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."
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"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
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"I did it the stupid way, through trial and error."
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"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
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"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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"If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing."
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"Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
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"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."
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"Facts do not speak."
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"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
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