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- Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — Isaac Newton
- The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use… — Wolfgang Ostwald
- Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow… — 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… — Carl Sagan
- I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — 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,… — John Fowles