Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in… — Walter A. Shewhart Copy Share Image
Living with the exhortation "Be in the World But Not of It," stimulates the best of your analytical skills, deepens your intuition,… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the scientific accuracy of the Bible, but they sift or reinterpret… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. — Charles Revson Copy Share Image
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The object of your training in drawing should be to develop to the uttermost the observation of form and all that it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one,… — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
