Inexact Quotes
14 quotes by 12 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Inexact Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 14 Inexact Quotes as follows: