Saturday, November 17, 2012

 

Detection of Blunders

Sydney Smith (1771-1845), letter to Sir Wilmot Horton (1835):
It is impossible now to be universal: men of the greatest information and accuracy swarm in the streets,—mineralogists, astronomers, ornithologists, and lousologists; the most minute blunder is immediately detected.



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