“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve… — Paola Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them… — A. D. Patel Copy Share Image
Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation. — Lev Landau Copy Share Image
I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere… — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image