Precise Quotes

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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. — Edsger Dijkstra
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the… — Norbert Wiener
God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify… — William Gurnall
Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They… — Atul Gawande
I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in… — John Trevor Godfrey
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex… — Linus Pauling
Countries trade with each other - or to be more precise people buy and sell from each other across frontiers - because that is the… — Margaret Thatcher
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. — Jeff VanderMeer
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and… — Rhonda Byrne
There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of… — Francis Collins
Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. — Harold Innis
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong,… — J L Austin
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly… — Raymond Smullyan
I'm a singer, not a vocal stylist. My breathing is correct; my enunciation is precise. Because of that, I can sing anybody's music. Yet there… — Ronnie Milsap
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke… — Garet Garrett
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams,… — Adam Parfrey

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