Zitat des Tages über Fehler / Errors:
Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.
It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
One of these days, I'm going to stop learning through my errors.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.
My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.