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Earl Horace Walpole

(24 Sep 1717 - 2 Mar 1797)

English politician and writer.

Science Quotes by Earl Horace Walpole (1)

In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

— Earl Horace Walpole

Quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 184.

See also: | Error (97) | Truth (241)

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