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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
Ian Mcewan
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Obscurity is the realm of error.


Luc de Clapiers
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One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.


Paul Nitze
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.


Brian Eno
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There is no original truth, only original error.


Gaston Bachelard
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Pure innovation is more gross than error.


George Chapman
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My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.


Ayrton Senna
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
David Hilbert
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The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.


Georg Cantor
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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.


Charles Hermite
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A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.


Mel Brooks
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.


Edsger Dijkstra
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
Whitfield Diffie
Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.
Michio Kaku
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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
Richard Courant
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.


Gabriel Marcel
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.


Albert Einstein
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.


Donald Rumsfeld
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!
Shakuntala Devi
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