"The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

More Approximate Quotes

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• Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes… — Christopher Hitchens
• The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the… — Charles Babbage
• That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable… — Arthur David Ritchie
• You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and… — Richard P. Feynman
• There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause… — Densey Clyne
• Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held… — John Szarkowski
• The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even… — Carl Jung
• All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after… — Charles Baudelaire
• Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking… — Edward Abbey
• Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute… — Sandra Boynton

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