Quotes About Accuracy

You know how to spell that? G-U-Z-M-A-N. Don't you go spelling my name wrong, or I'll have to mess you up.

I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.

Posterity is not kind to mathematicians who make errors.

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

La Sociedad Científicos Sentimentales era una locura. Pero tal vez hace falta un poco de locura entre tanta exactitud y precisión. Serán buenos los cálculos y los teoremas inexpugnables, si es que se aplican a rombos, ángulos y cubos. Pero empiezan a fallar cuando se trata de personas.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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If they lose faith in your knowledge, they lose faith in you. That grasp of the facts must be kept at a high level, for all time. You have to be accurate in what you say to the players.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss

Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

When it comes to watches, it's ironic that you can spend thousands on an exquisitely made mechanical watch, and yet it will be less accurate than a five-quid digital bought from a petrol station.

Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.

Journalists have to call out and correct the lies and smears polluting the air waves.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Play the pass at the right moment - not on a dry pitch and not hitting it hard enough. We don't have to accept it; that was a mistake - no goalkeeper should dribble in this situation.

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

Your pitches have to be sharp every time out.

Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it.