Error Margin

Famous quotes containing the words error and/or margin:

    “The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

    “I love a broad margin to my life.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)