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Error is just as important a condition of life as truth
Error is just as important a condition of life as truth
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them read more
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as read more
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".
You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right read more
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
[Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias,
scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]
