Accuracy Quotes

204 quotes by 185 authors

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I… — Charles Babbage
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. — Martha Beck
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. — Saul Bellow
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. — Samuel Butler
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience… — John Dewey
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. — Wyatt Earp
The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought… — Malcolm Gladwell
The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit… — Harry Vardon
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library. — Robin Sharma
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of… — Charles Babbage
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend… — Paul Cezanne
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting… — Hermann von Helmholtz
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether… — Lion Feuchtwanger
It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure… — William Cecil Dampier
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last… — Charles Babbage

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