Approximation Quotes
35 quotes by 32 authors
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Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their…
— Evan Davis
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The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity?…
— Heather O'Neill
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The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
— Maria Montessori
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Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.
— Nick Bantock
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be…
— Richard P. Feynman
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It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough…
— Jamais Cascio
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In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen,†Harriet said. “There’s an evil queen?†Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. “Of course,†Harriet replied.…
— Julia Quinn
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There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true…
— William S. Burroughs
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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon…
— Henri Poincare
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Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity…
— Athanasius
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What we refer to as the truth is only an approximation of the absolute truth. No one knows what is true, or no one is…
— N Atta Kusi Adusei
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I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations, that mathematical ideas originate…
— John Von Neumann
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