“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
– Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
“Our own attitude is that we are chartered with discovering the best way of doing everything, and that we should regard every process employed in the business as purely experimental”
– Henry Ford
“The truth is that there are no ultimate principles, upon which the whole of knowledge can be built once and forever as on a rock. But there are an infinity of analogues, which help us along, and give us a feeling of power over the chaos when we perceive them. The field is infinite and herein lies the chance for originality. Here there are some new things under the sun.”
– T.E. Hulme
“With every mistake we must surely be learning”
– George Harrison, While My Guitar Gently Weeps