Degrees Quote by Anonymous

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of…

— Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is…

— Aristotle

“Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking.”

— Ray Dalio

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

— Alfred North Whitehead

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the…

— Charles Babbage

“Be imprecise. Understand the concept of “by-and-large” and use approximations. Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good…

— Ray Dalio

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

Precision is not reality

— Henri Matisse

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

— Peter Abelard

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.

— John von Neumann

“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and…

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson