Inexact Quotes

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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact… — Garry Kasparov
When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am… — Arthur Nersesian
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. — Bertrand Russell
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences. — Edmond de Goncourt
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing… — Bertrand Russell
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae';… — Peter Ackroyd
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an… — Arthur Eddington
Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit… — Naveen Jain
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and… — Ezra Pound
A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on… — Harlow Shapley
The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that… — Kapil Sharma
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too… — Stephen Hawking

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