A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Error is always more busy than truth.
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.