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• Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — 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… — Humphry Davy
• I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and… — Edward Tufte
• Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without… — Bertrand Russell
• ...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always… — 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… — Claude Monet
• It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew… — Ann Druyan
• Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Sean Booth

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