Quotes About Accuracy

Truth is accuracy. Without accuracy, you can't expect to manifest large, specific changes in your life.

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public.

Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.

When somebody says something that's correct, he has no need to look good.

I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.

No matter how powerful a computer you have, if you put lousy data in you will get lousy predictions out.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average

Las teorías cuánticas han resultado ser notablemente precisas en la predicción de acontecimientos a dichas escalas, y también reproducen las predicciones de las viejas teorías clásicas cuando son aplicadas al mundo macroscópico de la vida corriente.

however, not very accurate, and so his value for the speed of light was 140,000 miles per second, compared to the modern value of 186,000 miles per second. Nevertheless, Roemer's achievement, in not only proving that light travels at a finite speed, but also in measuring that speed, was remarkable—coming as it did eleven years before Newton's publication of Principia Mathematica.

Kita jelas tak bisa memprediksi peristiwa masa depan dengan tepat jika tak bisa mengukur keadaan alam semesta sekarang dengan tepat! Kita masih dapat membayangkan ada set hukum yang mengatur peristiwa sepenuhnya bagi suatu sosok supranatural, yang dapat mengamati keadaan semesta sekarang tanpa mengganggu.

he could make out face, he was under two hundred yards. If he could just make out head he was under three hundred. If he could make out only legs, he was under four hundred. If he could make out body, he was under five hundred; if he could only see movement, he was under six hundred.

The truth is in the details.

Would we find that our history books covered things a little differently than the way they actually happened?

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

Always give more weight to peer-reviewed research than to results announced solely in the media.

Moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predictions, whether they are pretending to be liberals or conservatives. Liberals were the least accurate.

In Lerner's experiments, the desperate need to make sense of events can lead people to inaccurate conclusions (for example, a woman "led on" a rapist);

Accountability increases exploratory thought only when three conditions apply: (1) decision makers learn before forming any opinion that they will be accountable to an audience, (2) the audience's views are unknown, and (3) they believe the audience is well informed and interested in accuracy. When all three conditions apply, people do their darnedest to figure out the truth

Accountability increases exploratory thought only when three conditions apply: (1) decision makers learn before forming any opinion that they will be accountable to an audience, (2) the audience's views are unknown, and (3) they believe the audience is well informed and interested in accuracy.

Shooting a pistol while running with any accuracy at all is next to impossible. They train us at the Academy to do it at a walk. Slow yourself down, focus on the target. Be relentless, but be accurate. Nobody ever won a gunfight by missing what they were aiming at.

If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.