Quotes About Accuracy

Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth

Nowadays, of course, we are taught that the flat-Earth theory is wrong; that it is all wrong, absolutely. But it isn't. The curvature of the Earth is nearly 0 per mile, so that although the flat-Earth theory is wrong, it happens to be nearly right. That's why the theory lasted so long.

how much is 2+2? Suppose Joseph says: 2+2 = purple, while Maxwell says: 2+2 = 17. Both are wrong but isn't it fair to say that Joseph is wronger than Maxwell? Suppose you said: 2+2=an integer. You'd be right, wouldn't you? Or suppose you said: 2+2=an even integer. You'd be rather righter. Or suppose you said:2+2=3.999. Wouldn't you be nearly right?

A good Technician was rarely wrong. A top Technician was never wrong.

Yet, if there is the possibility of this satisfaction from accurate prophecy in science fiction, there is also the reverse. Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does. After all, if we may prove accurate in our predictions, we may prove inaccurate as well, sometimes ludicrously so.

She said, "I was just guessing." He said, "No, you weren't. Whatever it was, it wasn't just guessing.

I was very serious about journalism, even though colleagues from that time believe that I invented my reports. I didn't invent them, I merely exaggerated slightly.

I was the girl who was correcting people on the spelling of Led Zeppelin.

In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

Typically, being under the strike zone with the sinker isn't a big issue. I need to be a little bit higher with the strike zone earlier in the count. If you miss under with one here and there when you're ahead, it's really not an issue.

I One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality-a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow.

Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

A good marksman may miss.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.