“In the hurry of business, the most able Judges are liable to err.”
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron
Cotton v. Thurland (1793), 5 T. R. 409.
“It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.”
— Galileo Galilei, book Sidereus Nuncius
Sidereus Nuncius (Venice, 1609), Letter to Benedetto Castelli http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dirbooks&MenuItemdisplay&authorgibson&bookscientists&storyletter (1613)
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