The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Now in Wikipedia it's really interesting. If you put something incorrect up on Wikipedia within minutes there are people crawling all over… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,… — William Johnson Cory Copy Share Image
The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values,… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it… — George Inness Copy Share Image
“People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality,… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
