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
I prefer Kane's penalty-taking technique to the hop-and-skip approach that seems to be taking over football. Kane puts his foot through the… — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
The fact that we all leave behind seemingly insignificant clues behind ourselves - emotional DNA or what I call Small Data -… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to… — Kathryn Schulz 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
The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet… — Sergei Korolev Copy Share Image
We are all trained to be data driven people, but no hard data exist about the future. Therefore, the only way to… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Kuna nguzo saba ambazo hazina budi kuzingatiwa kama unataka kuheshimiwa na kuwaheshimu wengine. Kwanza kabisa jitambue: wewe ni nani na unafanya nini… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“The “best guess” as to what you’ll do in any given situation is easy to make – Guess you’ll do the… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The "spot-on" accuracy of the results may astound you. Once you understand yourself and realize that other people have their own sets… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might… — Christopher Hitchens 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 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
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days… — Mark Lilla 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 truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever… — Ira Bruce Nadel Copy Share Image
