Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. — Heywood Hale Broun Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the… — Cornelius Cardew Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the… — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
