3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Error

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on error

19. 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?

63. Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.

87. Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.