Ifs Quote by John von Neumann Download Open image “There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.” — John von Neumann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Knows No point Precise Talking
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other. — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
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If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
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