So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in… — Paul Parker Copy Share Image
We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to… — Pontus Hulten Copy Share Image
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order,… — William Banting Copy Share Image
When I see a face, I see a face in general and I see you are curious, I see the curiosity but… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small,… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
What is revolutionary today is that we're using precision-guided munitions. And instead of building individual weapons, we are building an industry and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with… — Mike Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and… — Harlan Mills Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
