Large Relative Error

Famous quotes containing the words large, relative and/or error:

“There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

“The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)