#errors

Most nightmares are caged in their realm by implausibilities. The sleeper slogs through quicksand in a fun house of frightening nonsense and disjointed mumbo jumbo. But everything’s all better once the bedside lamp is back on, because reality, even when it’s bad, is easily distinguished from night terror. Except for the trying-to-scream dream. That one’s pretty much spot-on. ↗

— Jamie Mason

#night-terrors #nightmares #scream #terror #dreams

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ↗

— David Hume

#errors #generally #only #philosophy #religion

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#errors #intolerable #more #nothing #own

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#announced #changed #could #did #errors

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ↗

— Marie Curie

#errors #establishing #hunt #hurry #instead

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#bonds #bursting #convention #disruptive #either

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#errors #expert #fallacy #grand #person

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#affording #any #errors #except #general

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#errors #god #his #may #mercy

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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