Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is…

“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make…

— Paola Kaufmann

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a…

— Donald Barthelme

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

— Lev Landau

There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature.…

— A. D. Patel

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness…

— Edgard Varese

“Luckily, there's a neat approximation formula for just this sum. The higher the number n, the better the estimate will be. It is mathematically…

— Metin Bektas

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest…

— Sri Aurobindo

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

— John Maynard Keynes

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor…

— George Sarton

No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this…

— Andrew Ng

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

— Emmett Tyrrell

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

— John von Neumann

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a…

— Sandra Boynton