Error Risk Quotes

Work of intellectual daring carries the danger of increased error, in both frequency and consequence.... Intrusive regulation by nonscientists is most frightening for this reason: innovation and chanciness will die.

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.

The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

You are likely to make more mistakes with a light-hearted film than a serious one.

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

When you are alone, you need to take many decisions, and you can make mistakes.