Quotes About Accuracy

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots." - On North Carolina missing 22 of its last 23 shots in losing to Georgetown in the NCAA tournament.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

You are to be in all things regulated and governed,' said the gentleman, 'by fact.

Now, what I want is Facts.

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,

I]n most cases the errors on the Piri Re'is Map are due to mistakes in the compilation of the world map, presumably in Alexandrian times, since it appears, as we shall see, that Piri Re'is could not have put them together at all. The component maps, coming from a far greater antiquity, were far more accurate. The Piri Re'is Map appears, therefore, to be evidence of a decline of science from remote antiquity to classical times.

You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

The problem with Internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.

Miss Quote is so inaccurate She never gets it right; Miss Attribute does so too Forever wrongly cite, Spreading literary blight!

the Maya knew the time taken by the moon to orbit the earth. Their estimate of this period was 29.528395 days – extremely close to the true figure of 29.530588 days computed by the finest modern methods.11 The Mayan priests also had in their possession very accurate tables for the prediction of solar and lunar eclipses and were aware that these could occur only within plus or minus eighteen days of the node (when the moon's path crosses the apparent path of the sun).

I guess you're right,' he said. 'They don't usually put anything on the television unless it's true.

Deadshot you're not.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.

Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession.

On two occasions I have been asked,—"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Every person has a right to their opinion, but no one has a right to be wrong in their facts.

At least those were the perceptions of an aging man whose retrospective vision was probably no more accurate today than it was when he was young.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.