Quotes About Approximate

She disappears after she's fed dinner, to who knows where, and returns sometime after the sun rises, but that's an approximate schedule. She's a Mediterranean cat, after all.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

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

Causality within the universe is not fundamental," says Page. "It is an approximate concept derived from our experience with the world." Strict causality could be an illusion, a way for our brains, and our science, to make sense of the world.

Decision making is such a delicate and complex mental process. If causality is only approximate, we don't know where the tipping point lies, where the decision is so fragile that it appears without definite cause.

he realized that he could get an approximate answer that was "good enough" in a short time

What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures that, if true, point to the existence of a theory.

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

I'm still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it's a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

the way love feels is always only approximate.

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening, disappears as it's happening.

Whatever belonging to the region of thought and feeling is uttered in words, is of necessity uttered imperfectly. For thought and feeling are infinite, and human speech, although far-reaching in scope, and marvellous in delicacy, can embody them after all but approximately and suggestively.

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

aun sin certeza, los problemas imposibles de resolver pueden, sin embargo, resolverse de manera aproximada

In modern science laws of nature are usually phrased in mathematics. They can be either exact or approximate, but they must have been observed to hold without exception—if not universally, then at least under a stipulated set of conditions. For

No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

while eighteen-button gloves have three small pearl buttons each at the musketeer (which everyone knows is the opening at the wrist), there are, indeed, eighteen buttons on each in length. That button is a standard of measurement of approximately one inch. The approximate part is because it is a French standard of measurement.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.