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"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
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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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"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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"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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"In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking."
Economy
"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation."
Knowledge
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
Error
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Ideas
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
Mathematics
"The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages."
Science
"There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list."
Knowledge
"To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance."
History
"The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted."
Effort
"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
Work
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