A Quote by Thomas Huxley

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

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Errors Harmful Held May More Products Scientific Spirit Than Truths Value

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Thomas Huxley
English - Scientist
May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Samuel Johnson

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Mason Cooley

Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.

Russell L. Ackoff

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Bertrand Russell

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

Charles Koch

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.

Raghuram Rajan

I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."

Billy Joel

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

Cory Booker

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.