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Bon mots: errors

"Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion."
--Francis Bacon

"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is...by teaching every man to think for himself."
--William Godwin

"Astrophysicists are often in error, but never in doubt."
--Lev Landau

"When you make one wrong turn, the errors tend to compound."
--Henry Roth

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
--James Joyce

"The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express:
Err and err and err again but less and less and less."
--Piet Hein

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