What does the quote "To err is human; to forgive is interplanetary" mean?

Question

What does the quote "To err is human; to forgive is interplanetary" mean?

Answer 1

It is correcting the original quote.  More and more religion gives way to science… if forgiving is not human and divine doesn’t really exist, the obvious alternative is alien.

Answer 2

One must assume that the quoter knows the Alexander Pope original. The play on words is on the unwillingness to ascribe the exotic nature of forgiveness to something other than "Divine". Interplanetary conveys the idea "not of this world" but stops markedly short of being or acknowledging religion and the Concept of the Divine.

Answer 3

"To err is human; to forgive is divine." Alexander Pope ( English poet)

Everybody can make a mistake but to forgive those mistakes is something noble.

Answer 4

You have it wrong.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Answer 5

It is "To err is human, to forgive divine."  It basically means that everyone makes mistakes...but not everyone can forgive.  To forgive someone for their humanness is a beautiful gift.