Quotes About Accuracy

Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and transform it to equally specific products.

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

My dad is a great judge of fights. He's the only person I know who said that Holyfield would beat Tyson the first time.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Umpiring is a tough job. Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't want to be an umpire. You've got a split second to make a decision.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.

I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

Hit the nail on the head.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought

She was telling the truth, but that didn't mean she was right.

In fact, when compared against the timepieces normally employed for such calibration purposes, the turret clocks were all found to have resumed keeping perfect time.

As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise.

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Any show that speaks to people of color feels the burden to never mess up, never make its characters look bad - to always get it right.

In special effects, you can cheat to make it look good. In real science, you have to have results.