“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
“In these matters, as often in our culture, it is far, far better to be wrong in a respectable way than to be right for the wrong reasons.”
Source: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section VII, p. 85
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John Tukey (1915–2000) American mathematician
The future of data analysis. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33 (1), (1962), page 13.
Variant: "An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question." "as the renowned statistician John Tukey once reportedly said," according to Super Freakonomics page 224.
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Duchess and the Bugs", 'Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Crime and Punishment
Source: Crime and Punishment (Zločin a trest)
