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Quotes About Approximate

Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent
~ Buckminster Fuller
Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.
~ Jenna Wortham
The larger the number of samples, the more closely the distribution will approximate the normal distribution.
~ Charles Wheelan
Heat, entropy, and the lower entropy of the past are notions that belong to an approximate, statistical description of nature.
~ Carlo Rovelli
The notion of "particularity" is born only at the moment we begin to see the universe in a blurred and approximate way.
~ Carlo Rovelli
the world is made entirely from quantum fields. These fields do not live *in* spacetime; they live, so to speak, one on top of the other: fields on fields. The space and time that we perceiv in large scale are our blurred and approximage image of one of these quantum fields: the gravitational field (193).
~ Carlo Rovelli
Scientists marching under Newton's banner actually waved another flag that said something like this: Given an approximate knowledge of a system's initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behavior of the system. This assumption lay at the philosophical heart of science.
~ James Gleick
Close but no cigar
~ Lawrence Sanders
Per così dire», iva. Mi piace questa parola, iva. Dev'essere sanscrito. Certe cose Calasso le sa. Davanti a tipi come lui che capiscono il sanscrito non puoi che restare a bocca aperta. In ogni caso, ben venga l'apologetico quando si è davanti all'approssimativo. O al titubante. O al decisamente arrischiato. Ogni traduzione dovrebbe avere iva in appendice.
~ Tim Parks
WE APPROXIMATE THE BIRD'S BODY BY A SPHERE OF RADIUS 5CM, said Sib, I had no idea aerodynamics was so entertaining
~ Helen DeWitt
total camp would thus appear to approximate
~ Chuck Missler
The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
~ Idries Shah
I thought of another moral, more down to earth and concrete, and I believe that every militant chemist can confirm it: that one must distrust the almost-the-same […], the practically identical, the approximate, the or-even, all surrogates, and all patchwork. The differences can be small, but they can lead to radically different consequences…
~ Primo Levi
A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
~ Matt Berninger
Within a stone's throw of it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
One cannot approximate truth, add nor take away, for there is no one on earth like the true shepherd and there is nothing in heaven like the suffering of real life.
~ Patti Smith
Around has two main meanings. The most common meaning is vaguely moving from one direction to another. What do many people do on holiday? They walk around the town where they are staying. About and round mean the same, and several verbs have all three forms which mean the same.. The second meaning of around and about is approximate. How much is it? About ten euros. It is around ten euros.
~ Unknown