Quote by Frank Herbert

It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately…

— Arthur David Ritchie

It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to…

— William Cecil Dampier

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the…

— Lord Kelvin

“He invented a machine for reading underwater and nearly drowned in the bath because it worked.”

— A.S. Byatt

“There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released the faucet…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

— Nathan Seiberg

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

“water is so protean a medium that it can be made to fit any purpose.”

— Philip Ball

“The universe was a disorderly mess, the only interesting bits being the organised anomalies. Hackworth had once taken his family out rowing on the…

— Neal Stephenson

Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could…

— Frederick The Great

“The water woke with a tactile vibration just the way Luce's own skin had once woken under the touch of a boy whom she…

— Sarah Porter

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

— Walther Nernst