Quotes About Accuracy

It is better to be wrong than to be vague. —Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Es mejor estar equivocado que ser impreciso. —FREEMAN DYSON

The truth always matters

Sometimes the truth does hurt, Jimmy. But I'll take the truth over speculation and just plain wrong information any day. Once you accept anything less than that, the whole world goes to Hell.

I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.

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If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Too nice, and yet too true!

it is not enough to speak, but to speak true

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Comme dit Kinglake : un examen si minutieux qu'il finit par placer un objet sous un angle de vision mensonger est un plus mauvais guide qu'un rapide coup d'oeil qui embrasse les choses dans leurs justes proportions.

It proved conclusively the great accuracy of naval fire, provided good observation could be obtained.

I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.

My GPS, accurate as a racetrack tout, steered me off course, and instead of heading toward Bucks County, I was approaching Niagara Falls.

Just because you've said it..doesn't make it true

You are not being paid to make assumptions

I will omit but I will not distort.

Don't you ever imagine?" "What's the imagination got to do with anything?" "It's better than your ever increasing accuracies. They're as phoney as silicon boobs. Like proper tits, inaccuracies are much more entertaining.