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"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
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"To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement."
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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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"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
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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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"I did it the stupid way, through trial and error."
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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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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
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"I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway."
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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
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"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
Progress
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
Flattery
"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
Acquaintance
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
Man
"God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."
God
"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
Animals
"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
Wisdom
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
Love
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