"There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."

"The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfil the law of their being."

"We don't use the word evolution. We hope to walk a very thin line. On one hand we want the scientists to say this film is right and accurate, and yet we don't want to have the church picketing the film."

"The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge."

"It is a sign of maturity and decency to acknowledge that often all parties participate in making mistakes that can produce discord. In our time, recognizing this fact is part of being an honest person of depth. It helps us understand that trouble between people gets transformed when everyone takes responsibility for their part. Negotiation is a process, first of acknowledgment, and then adjustment to the new information produced by that acknowledgment. Recognizing mutuality of cause is a principle that allows progressive change without . Scapegoating, after all, is often rooted in the false accusation that one person or group is unilaterally responsible for mistakes that are actually contributed to by multiple parties."

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

"Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures."

"Errare humanus est."

"Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true."

"Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a raison."

"Dark Error's other hidden side is truth."

"Ille sinistrorsum hic dextrorsum abit, unus utrique Error, sed variis illudit partibus."

"Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt."

"Es giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernünftiges vorsetzen."

"Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong."

"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below."

"Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd."

"The cautious seldom err."

"Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias, scio quam cum istis vera sentire."

"Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"The legendary Danish physicist Niels Bohr distinguished two kinds of truths. An ordinary truth is a statement whose opposite is a falsehood. A profound truth is a statement whose opposite is also a profound truth. In that spirit, we might say that an ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake."

"There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake."

"Those who do not blunder achieve nothing."

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions — especially selfish ones."

"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"The error of our eye directs our mind: What error leads must err."

"Purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads."

"How far your eyes may pierce, I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."

"There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory; but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory."

"Life, like war, is a series of mistakes; and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that; but he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes."

"And certainly it was not wrong to try to secure freedom for our citizens held in barbaric captivity. But we did not achieve what we wished, and serious mistakes were made in trying to do so. We will get to the bottom of this, and I will take whatever action is called for."

"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."

"When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long; Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way."

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

"Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last."

"Mistakes are common, not because people or firms are incompetent but because they are constantly dancing on the edge of knowledge."

"If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down."

"A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. Then, again, every major change in policy demands a corresponding change of doctrine and a revelation of prominent historical figures."

"Unsere Fehler sind die Fehler aller Menschen, die in den gleichen gesellschaftlichen und geschichtlichen Verhältnissen leben würden."

"You have to ask yourself, What do I really want to do or be? Then make yourself this promise: I will not look over my shoulder; I will use whatever I have learned, but I will not dwell on the mistakes I have made. Whether you're seventeen, twenty-seven or sixty-seven, you bring experience to your new venture or adventure. If you draw from your own experience and use it as a guide, focus on today and not yesterday, your chances of success are greatly improved."

"First mistake, last mistake! Paid by the alliance, to slay all the giants! Next mistake, no more mistakes!"

"The mistakes that have been most extreme in Berkshire's history are mistakes of omission. They don't show up in our figures — they show up in opportunity costs."

"It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."

"The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake."

"Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all — they are attempting nothing new."