Quotes About Accuracy

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

She was innately suspicious of language because she could "hear" with remarkable accuracy what lay behind it, and also she just didn't know how to talk very well.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I could write "I don't know" one million times and publish that as my memoir. And, yes, it would be repetitive, experimental, and more metaphor than history, but it would also be emotionally accurate.

I'm partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

However, at the present time this is merely speculation. There is little hard data about the accuracy of material transformed from traumatic to semantic memory. More research is needed in this area.

I don't plan to miss," she said. Will shrugged. "Nobody ever does.

Until I get it right," she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.

This hitteth the nail on the head.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

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

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

The most perfect character is supposed to lie between those extremes; retaining an equal ability and taste for books, company, and business; preserving in conversation that discernment and delicacy which arise from polite letters; and in business, that probity and accuracy which are the natural result of a just philosophy.

You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

All positive knowledge obtained . . . has resulted from the accurate observation of facts.

Getting the past wrong is almost as problematic as not getting the past into our minds at all.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

The ancient Maya were superb stargazers. Their calendar synchronized not just the Sun and Moon, byt also Venus and Mars. They worked out that 81 (or 3X3X3X3) full moons occur exactly every 2,392 (or 8X13X23) days, an astonishingly accurate gearing.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

It is very unlikely your people are lying to you. But your measurements definitely are.

a measurement not clearly defined is worse than useless.