Quotes About Accuracy

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds.

I've got a quick release and I can throw the ball accurately as long as I bring my feet with me.

So as long as my shoulders are level and I pull through with my hips, the ball should go where it's supposed to go.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Lots of historians are sniffy about re-enactors.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I think, in a way, my training made it worse for me because I knew how important it was to focus on document-based analysis, and I really didn't want to get stuff wrong.

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.

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

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them.

I umpired for 25 years and can honestly say I never called one wrong in my heart.

I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. I shoot 90 to a hundred or, once in a while, 85.

None of this is quite true but Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.

None of this is quite true but Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular.

había seguido mis instrucciones al pie de la letra.

The Julian calendar, which it replaced, computed the period of the earth's orbit around the sun at 365.25 days. Pope Gregory XIII's reform substituted a finer and more accurate calculation: 365.2425 days. Thanks to scientific advances since 1582 we now know that the exact length of the solar year is 365.2422 days.

Perhaps the major tenet of Pinpoint is that GPS barely exists—not just because the signal itself is so weak, but also because GPS is a remarkably diffuse concept. At root, GPS is just a radio signal, maintained and perfected by a vast infrastructure that is ultimately linked to the United States Department of Defense.

The potential problem with these arrangements is that the exchange clocks, like so many extremely accurate clocks in this world, receive their time signal from GPS.

3. Bibliolatry. The inerrancy theory tends to shift the focus of faith away from Jesus Christ and toward the accuracy of the Bible. This is bibliolatry. According to the Bible itself, faith should rest on Jesus Christ, not on one's opinion about the degree of accuracy of the Bible. Responding

It is better to be wrong than to be vague. In trial and error, the error is the true essential. —FREEMAN DYSON