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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… — Bertrand Russell
- Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess… — Garry Kasparov
- When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the… — Arthur Nersesian
- When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an… — Bertrand Russell
- We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Naveen Jain
- The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, 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.… — Harlow Shapley