Quote by Neal Stephenson

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

— John Tukey

“the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued.”

— Ray Dalio

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

— Albert Einstein

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

— John Tukey

“Circuit design is one of the great applied-maths problems.”

— Matt Parker

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills.…

— Albert Einstein

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

— Barack Obama

“The quality of the problem that is found is a forerunner of the quality of the solution that is attained . . .” Getzels concluded.”

— Daniel H. Pink

This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the…

— Nathan Seiberg

“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and…

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

“Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking.”

— Ray Dalio