Quotes About Accuracy

In other words, people who don't know better are often wrong by accident, and people who do know better are sometimes wrong on purpose—and whenever a modern news story explodes, everyone recognizes that possibility. But we question this far less when the information comes from the past. It's so hard to get viable info about pre-twentieth-century life that any nugget is reflexively taken at face value.

There are no other religious books on planet earth that have the audacity to hang their track record on their ability to predict the future. Only the Bible is 20/20, on target, and always has been. You can prove the Bible is true by what it says and what has happened.

primam esse historiae legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat, n quid veri non audeat - Historiju trebamo poznavati kako ne bi govorili neistinu i kako imali hrabrosti za istinu

The most calamitous failures of prediction usually have a lot in common. We focus on those signals that tell a story about the world as we would like it to be, not how it really is.

But history was something that you couldn't trust. It was put together wrong, or copied wrong, or misinterpreted, or improved upon by a man with a misplaced imagination. Truth was so hard to keep, myth and fable so easy to breathe into a life that was more acceptable than truth.

Unfortunately we have to remember we're scientists, not writers of popular semifictional archaeological claptrap.

Em Samarcanda, dois séculos antes da invenção do telescópio, Ulug Beg registava a trajetória de mil e dezoito estrelas e recalculava o ano estelar com uma diferença de segundos em relação aos resultados obtidos atualmente pela eletrónica.

Numbers can't be racist, right? But the data can be dumb or wrong, though, and if you feed shit into the computer, it gives you shit right back.

Hey," Faraday said after a few seconds. "Did you know your clock's still ten minutes fast?

No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.

All he had to do was simultaneously solve several multiple-variable equations, and hope he'd get it right.

If you're playing God, you need to get it right.

What Are You Planning to Do? The second question I ask is, "What do you plan to do in your meetings?" The options are endless. But once I know what happens in a small group, I can predict with uncanny accuracy who will come and who won't.

Memory is a magpie after chips of colored glass and ribbon rather than the upright accuracy of objective sequence.

One shot, one kill," Jonah said. "That's the sniper motto.

The weatherman is always as honest as he is vague.

and to compile accurate charts of the coastlines.

Schöner's maps closely resembled Behaim's, and Pigafetta could easily have mistaken one for the other

Significantly, Serrão's letters placed the Spice Islands far to the east of their true position;

several glasses were generally employed for greater precision.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.