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Approximate Quotes by John Tukey
- Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be…
- An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
More Approximate Quotes
- The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed… — Margaret Mead
- 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… — Christopher Hitchens
- That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not… — 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… — 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… — Densey Clyne
- A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
- When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my… — Jack Abbott