Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Error
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.