Quotes About Accuracy

When Germans start being accurate, there's no end to it!

The three essentials of the English language are: Purity, Perspicuity and Precision.

The artillery officer had mastered the technique of firing accurately in the dark by registering the guns beforehand, that is, determining the variance in each gun for barometric pressure, wind speed, and direction. The artillery could thus fire unceasingly both day and night prior to an attack.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. It trained them to shoot skeet.

But that doesn't seem to matter; all that does matter is that the information comes from a reputable source.

In many instances, depressives may simply be judging themselves and the world much more accurately than non-depressed people, and finding it not a pretty place." Abramson

later you might discover that what you said is not true. When you do not know that what you are saying is untrue, you are making a mistake.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Never trust a source 100 percent. Or even ninety. Okay, 75 percent, tops.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

And that's the way it is.

Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author's name, without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found. Let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be found. A quotation without a reference is like a geological specimen of unknown locality.

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

A number of people I talked to had predicted it. He was very detail-oriented

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

One test result is the worth one-thousand expert opinions.

The further away from the source, the more contaminated the information is."

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.