Quotes About Accuracy

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

You can not define being exactly on time.

When I was doing local weather full time, I would wake up in the morning or stay up all night to make sure the snowflakes started at the time that I said they would.

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

Tener razón demasiado pronto es lo mismo que equivocarse.

Vivimos en un mundo donde se hacen juicios apresurados y con gran facilidad. Se dicen e imprimen mentiras acerca de las personas a través de una prensa irresponsable; cualquiera puede decir lo que quiera en su sitio Web y parecer digno de crédito.

I wanted to double-check with you that your mailing address is still the same as the one you sent us back in April? If you're a college student I know address changes are really common at this time of year!

Since the publisher paid the salary; since rewrite men, like television writers, maintained their own feeling of superiority to the mass by writing down to the level of a not very bright twelve-year-old; since the facts had to be trimmed and altered to fit the open space or time slot; even these reporters had a difficult time of maintaining the usual odds—that there is only a twenty-to-one chance that anything said in the newspapers or on the air may be accurate.

Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer.

Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

Let us stop making unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them.

our" reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann's work were not especially honest.

Competent scientists do not doubt the hockey stick because it does not have enough publications to back it up. They doubt it because it has been shown to be based on incorrect math and inadequate data.

the fact that the climate models do not reliably model the real climate.

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

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?

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