“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
Quotes by Carveth Read
“The way to develop one's power of reasoning is, first, to set oneself problems and try to solve them. Secondly, since the solving of a problem depends upon one's ability to call to mind parallel cases, one must learn as many facts as possible, and keep on learning all one's life; for nobody ever knew enough. Thirdly one must check all results by the principles of Logic.”
“It’s better to be approximately right than exactly wrong.”
Carveth Read
Carveth Read was a British philosopher and logician whose work spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known for his contributions to the fields of philosophy and logic, particularly th...