Quotes About Accuracy

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

Science rejects the indeterminate.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Even if ninety-nine percent of what you discover is later proven wrong, it is the one percent that is right that matters.

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

to be of greater use, the rules need to be remolded so that they are more precise and accurate, less egocentric, and more elastic . When rules are discovered to be false, self-defeating, or unworkable, they have to be dropped from the repertoire.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Ningún hombre tiene memoria suficiente para ser un mentiroso exitoso (Abraham Lincoln)

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

His standards for himself, and for everybody around him, are the highest. He was Foreign Office trained and wants the world to function at that level. He is meticulous about everything; he hates to be late; he hates inaccuracy; he double checks everything; he follows up everything; he has fallbacks if things should, in spite of everybody's efforts, go wrong.7

Facts speak plainer than words

When you hit back make sure you have got the right man.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Communications can be precise and exacting while still being tragically wrong.

The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong

Isn't Chief worried about the Dan Rather-James Brady syndrome? Getting the news first -- if it's incorrect? And if that wasn't enough, then in 2004, Rather turned around and did it again when he didn't confirm President George Bush's military records and broadcast a bogus story about President Bush." -- excerpt from "Love Thy Neighbor" ©2012. by Diane Moore

Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.

All sports are games of inches.