Approximation Quotes

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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I… — Paulo Freire
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,… — Charles Lamb
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not… — Aristotle
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life. — John Dewey
We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but… — Muhammad Yunus
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas,… — Carl Rogers
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty — Andrei Tarkovsky
Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that… — Milan Kundera
The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in… — Ralph Merkle
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a… — Michel de Certeau
Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system… — John Michael Greer
The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation. — Paulo Mendes da Rocha
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. — Bertrand Russell
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing… — Bertrand Russell
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They donâ€™t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation… — E E Cummings
We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy. — Ralph Merkle

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