Imprecise Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to… — John Maynard Keynes
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel
It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.... — Felix Mendelssohn
I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the… — Carl Sagan
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… — Glenn Gould
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. — John Fowles
What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer. — Tim Ferriss
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed… — Friedrich August von Hayek
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. — Daniel Keys Moran
Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the… — David Markson
To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...] — Zadie Smith
Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience. — Siva Vaidhyanathan

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