Precise Quotes

390 quotes by 349 authors

The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… — Werner Heisenberg
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us.… — Alfred North Whitehead
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — Lord Kelvin
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the… — Miguel de Cervantes
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of… — Paul Davies
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the… — Thomas Jefferson
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up… — Gabor Mate
Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation… — Robert Stawell Ball
A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets… — Jim Lefebvre
The only valid reason to use clichÃ©s is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation so… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise… — Karl Jaspers
You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be… — Wolf Blitzer
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a… — Christian B. Anfinsen
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that… — William S. Burroughs
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your… — Jane Goodall
I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts. — Albert Einstein

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