--- title: "3 Leonard A. Smith Quotes" description: "Leonard A. Smith was an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-leonard-a-smith-76113.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Leonard A. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-leonard-a-smith-76113.jpg) # Leonard A. Smith **3** quotes in **15** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Leonard A. Smith was an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. ## Quotes by Leonard A. Smith > [“Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead. It fell to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-a-smith/embedded-in-the-mud-glistening-green-and-gold-and-black-was-a/) [Leonard A. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-a-smith/) [Dominoes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dominoes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/leonard-a-smith-76113_dominoes_embedded-in-the-mud-glistening-green-and_523202.jpg) > [“Throughout this Introduction we will see that confusing our mathematical models with the reality they aim to describe muddles the discussion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-a-smith/throughout-this-introduction-we-will-see-that-confusing-our/) [Leonard A. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-a-smith/) [Confusing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/confusing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/leonard-a-smith-76113_quote_throughout-this-introduction-we-will-see_1356212.jpg) > [“Taking least squares is no longer optimal, and the very idea of ‘accuracy’ has to be rethought. This simple fact is as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-a-smith/taking-least-squares-is-no-longer-optimal-and-the-very-idea-of/) [Leonard A. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-a-smith/) [Nonlinear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nonlinear/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57d/leonard-a-smith-76113_nonlinear_taking-least-squares-is-no-longer-optima_2628469.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-a-smith/#itemlist", "name": "Leonard A. Smith Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead. It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time. Ray Bradbury (1952)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leonard A. Smith" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-a-smith/embedded-in-the-mud-glistening-green-and-gold-and-black-was-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/leonard-a-smith-76113_dominoes_embedded-in-the-mud-glistening-green-and_523202.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/leonard-a-smith-76113_dominoes_embedded-in-the-mud-glistening-green-and_523202.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/leonard-a-smith-76113_dominoes_embedded-in-the-mud-glistening-green-and_523202.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead. It…” — Leonard A. 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