The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Error is discipline through which we advance.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.