Quotes About Accuracy

He was the first to understand that unambiguous equivalence principles could be obtained only with the most inspired attention to experimental accuracy.

It is hardly in human nature that a man should quite accurately gauge the limits of his own insight; but it is the duty of those who profit by his work to consider carefully where he may have been carried beyond it.

Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

Accounting is your primary information system for making decisions, so if that information is bad, your decisions will be bad too.

Your thoughts create your emotions; therefore, your emotions cannot prove that your thoughts are accurate.

The expression 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics' was popularised by Mark Twain and attributed by him, in his autobiography, to the nineteenth-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Statistics can easily fool us if used incorrectly, or if we fail to take in the whole picture of what's going on. The situation is even worse when data are presented in a way that's deliberately misleading – as often happens in advertising and politics. Without resorting to outright lies, there are plenty of ways to distort data to create a false impression.

A theory may be superseded by a new theory which explains more, and is more accurate, but is also easier to understand, in which case the old theory becomes redundant, and we gain more understanding while needing to learn less than before. That is what happened when Nicolaus Copernicus's theory of the Earth travelling round the Sun superseded the complex Ptolemaic system which had placed the Earth at the centre of the universe.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Unfortunately, we generally find it difficult to assess very small probabilities. We typically overestimate them (thinking the events more likely than they are) and underestimate very high probabilities.

Raw data, like raw potatoes, usually require cleaning before use. Ronald A. Thisted

it is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them'.

Smyth's predictions of the date of the Second Coming, as with everyone else's predictions of this event, have proved inaccurate.

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Everything that is online is not necessarily in line.

Never say you are five feet nine whenyou are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered.Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turnout that there is a God.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.