Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation. — Lev Landau 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
The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation. — Paulo Mendes da Rocha Copy Share Image
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be… — Paulo Freire 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
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to… — John Dewey 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
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the… — Dan Simmons 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
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant 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
“Through its creative power, art may trigger approximation, reconciliation and harmonization between individuals and peoples. Through art, beings can meet and exchange… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty — Andrei Tarkovsky 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
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of… — Carl Rogers 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
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and… — e. e. cummings 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
The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
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