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Quotes About Calibration

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.
~ John Hull
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
~ Thomas Fuller
Archaeologists often distinguish calibrated from uncalibrated dates by writing the former in upper-case letters and the latter in lower-case letters (for example, 3000 B.C. vs. 3000 B.C., respectively).
~ Jared Diamond
We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? Young people are creating ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive. There will be no time to reflect, to sleep to cool.
~ Dave Eggers
We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?
~ Dave Eggers
Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?
~ Dave Eggers
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
~ Sam Kean
An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.
~ Unknown
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
~ Joel Coen
When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn't often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.
~ Meg Wolitzer