Approximate Quotes

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes… — Christopher Hitchens
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind. — Charles Babbage
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It… — Arthur David Ritchie
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees… — Richard P. Feynman
There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like… — Densey Clyne
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... — John Szarkowski
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism… — Immanuel Wallerstein
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it.… — Carl Jung
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of… — Charles Baudelaire
Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during… — Edward Abbey
Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has… — Sandra Boynton
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and… — Paul Dirac
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems… — Robert Frenay
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but… — Robert Duvall
It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but… — Harold Jeffreys
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

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