Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of erro… - William Whewell

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Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.

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About William Whewell

William Whewell (May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science.

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Alternative Names: Reverend William Whewell
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