Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of…

— Wendell Pierce

Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of…

— John Herschel

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always,…

— Robert Heinecken

In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In…

— Nick Antosca

Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination…

— Nicolas Cage

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

— Carroll O'Connor

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who…

— Carl Sagan

Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of…

— Rhianna Pratchett

The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its…

— William James

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

— Anonymous

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but…

— Shawn Johnson

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your…

— Robert Farrar Capon

If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If…

— Larry Brilliant

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images…

— Carl Jung