Approximations Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

• Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only… — Guy de Maupassant
• Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being… — Humphry Davy
• I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that… — Edward Tufte
• Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at… — Bertrand Russell
• ...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in… — George E. P. Box
• It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well,… — Claude Monet
• It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that,… — Ann Druyan
• Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
• Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough… — Vera Nazarian
• Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann
• The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects… — Jacques Ibert
• Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and… — Sean Booth
• 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

Who Wrote These Approximations Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Approximations Quotes as follows:

• 2 Approximations Quotes by John von Neumann
• 1 Approximations Quote by Humphry Davy
• 1 Approximations Quote by Edward Tufte
• 1 Approximations Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Approximations Quote by George E. P. Box
• 1 Approximations Quote by Claude Monet
• 1 Approximations Quote by Ann Druyan
• 1 Approximations Quote by Christopher Hitchens
• 1 Approximations Quote by Vera Nazarian
• 1 Approximations Quote by Jacques Ibert
• 1 Approximations Quote by Sean Booth
• 1 Approximations Quote by Guy de Maupassant