Quote by Bertrand Russell Download Open image ““Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.”” — Bertrand Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision” — Lotfi A. Zadeh Copy Share Image
“When things consistently fail to compute, it does point to a consistently undefined possibility.” — Edwin F. Becker 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 theories and… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It has never yet been supposed, that all the facts of nature, and all the means of acquiring precision in the computation and analysis… — Marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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