sake of exactness

“if merely for the sake of exactness in all points,”

— Victor Hugo

In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since…

— Victor Hugo

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world…

— Georg Simmel

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if…

— Herbert Hoover

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in…

— Max Born

The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his…

— Paul Lafargue

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the…

— Benjamin Peirce

It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real…

— Anonymous

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must…

— Alphonsus Liguori

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous