Quotes About Accuracy

A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.

When I'm right, no one remembers. When I'm wrong, no one forgets.

When you're right, no one remembers, when you're wrong, no one forgets.

I hate being wrong, especially on things I've researched, I need to remember I can't oversimplify arguments due to slow typing skills.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Five-second fuses only last three seconds.

Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.

The true things rarely get into circulation. It's usually the false things.

Stereotyping didn't become stereotyping without being rooted in fact. - Petra Reuter

the typical trader wants to be right on every single trade. He is desperately

Collecting data using improper methods can spoil any statistical analysis

Regardless of how scientists may feel about respecting the history of the name, there's no world in which "killer" sounds like a safe species to swim with. If you're on their menu, the name is accurate, but if you're not—and we're clearly not—it's an archaic holdover from an ancient era that makes it harder to save this vital species.

Increasing the Reliability of Observational Methods To be useful, observational

The call for journalists to adopt objectivity was an appeal for them to develop a consistent method of testing information—a transparent approach to evidence—precisely so that personal and cultural biases would not undermine the accuracy of their work.

In fact, so bad is the federal government's management of its massive resources that the General Accountability Office (GAO) found the accuracy of most of its financial reporting suspect.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.