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"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
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"The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors."
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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
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"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
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"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
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"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."
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"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
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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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"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."
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"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."
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"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."
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"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
Error
"It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on."
Spirit
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."
Poetry
"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
Idea
"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."
Music
"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning."
Doctors
"Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath."
Road
"Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
Language
"It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance."
Family
"If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society."
Society
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