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Quotes About Exactness

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;
~ Jennifer Egan
I am a precise person in everything I do.
~ Javier Zanetti
I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.
~ Ree Drummond
Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.
~ Eva Longoria
I've made a career of being precise.
~ Arlen Specter
Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.
~ Betsy Hodges
Precision matters, breh.
~ Mookie Betts
If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.
~ Andrew Rosenthal
Be as precise as possible about your need for aid.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
~ Gabriel Marcel
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.
~ Jacob Bronowski
One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.
~ Kenneth Arrow
but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.
~ William Stanley Jevons
Science rejects the indeterminate.
~ Claude Bernard
Objectivity is obsessed with exactness and tends to be rather intolerant of deviation, almost
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. The
~ Ernest Hemingway
I like the exactness of baking. I'm not someone who's like, 'I'll just throw a bunch of stuff together. This is gonna taste delicious.' I am a rule follower: I really like the measuring. It's completely tedious, but I love that. It's calming. And I am a total sweetaholic.
~ Madeline Brewer
No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
~ Robert Half
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man. —Bertrand Russell
~ Douglas W. Hubbard
Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.
~ Stephen Covey
If I am loved," Father Damien went on, "it is a merciless and exacting love against which I have no defense. If I am not loved, then I am being pitilessly manipulated by a force I cannot withstand, either, and so it is all the same. I must do what I must do. Go in peace.
~ Louise Erdrich
To ABATE [only in 1755 edition] (ABATE)   [in horsemanship.] A horse is said to abate or take down his curvets; when working upon curvets, he puts his two hind-legs to the ground both at once, and observes the same exactness in all the times.Dict.   
~ Samuel Johnson
After all those years of people counting off seconds in her earpiece, I swear she has time wired into every bit of her body, so that it was almost exactly an hour when she climbed out.
~ Anna Quindlen