Single Error

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or error:

    A single dish cannot satisfy the tastes of a hundred people.
    Chinese proverb.

    Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus “theoretically,” is to use language in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)